But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in… — Frances Densmore Copy Share Image
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy. — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
“Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“I believe that the infinite and mysterious charm that lies in the contemplation of a moving vessel is caused, firstly, by the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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