The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception. — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“Not having the slightest abhorrence towards any nimit (instrumental doer) is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of… — Ruben Aguilar Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable picture called 'Contemplation.' It shows a forest in winter and on a roadway through the forest, in absolute… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Spiritual reading, discursive meditation, and prayer prepare our hearts for contemplation. Contemplation is a state of realized oneness with God. When engaged… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“However, the enormous superiority of contemplation over activity of any kind, action not excluded, is not Christian in origin. We find it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.” — Carlo Carretto Copy Share Image
“Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted,… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
“It was pretty absurd travelling up through Peru to arrive in Iquitos, hoping to find an expedition! Life does not work like… — Gordon Roddick Copy Share Image
As I started to find my voice in photography, I became more interested in making the photograph a space of contemplation and… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
