“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you,… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“When love has carried us above all things ... we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us. What… — John of Ruysbroeck Copy Share Image
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do,… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“To trust the slow work of the sacred is to discover that the ground has always been there. That it was holding… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had… — Sasha Mizaree Copy Share Image
Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears,… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my… — Rasun Copy Share Image
“Worldly life increases with artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others), and worldly… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
