Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Any act which is done for others is considered as dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Silence is not always saying yes to anything, it is just a perfect way of thinking what to do next. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.” — L.H. Sigourney Copy Share Image
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own… — Nirmalananda Copy Share Image
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“you’ve learned to align your consciousness with your inner Watcher and perch there, observing your physical and emotional feelings. Just one step… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Insight comes through relentless contemplation upon the world within and the world without.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation. — John Gay Copy Share Image
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