The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that Martha. It gives access to contemplation - but to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Its amazing to contemplate what human mind is capable of, incredible functionality, specialty of describing something beautifully without even experiencing called the… — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The deeper he penetrates into this inner being, the more will he feel inclined to keep the development quite secret. It is… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Everything in the service involved communication,” he says with gentle exasperation. “Greeting people, the lengthy sermon, the singing. There was no emphasis… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous… — Kyriacos C. Markides Copy Share Image
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
If it ever seems like everyone is arguing with you and no one else maybe its time to contemplate making a change… — Kels Holstine Copy Share Image
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything, or you look… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric… — Christian B. Anfinsen Copy Share Image
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I'd like to have a vote on it at the November [owners'] meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we… — Bob DuPuy Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
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