Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature. — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
“Contemplation over action teaches that it is better to behold God than to try and imitate his power.” — Daniel Schwindt Copy Share Image
The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The world we have created does not encourage or promote leave-of-absences. It does not promote deep contemplation, especially the type with no… — Jane Meredith Copy Share Image
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves… — amy litzelman Copy Share Image
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
“Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“They who have received some portion of God’s gift, these, if judged by their deeds, have from death’s bond won their release;… — Muata Ashby Copy Share Image
“The contemplation of consciousness—which is the contemplation of no-thing whatsoever—is endlessly fascinating. It’s like staring at a candle in a dark night—you… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Contemplation does not rest until it has found the object which dazzles it.” — Konrad Weiss Copy Share Image
“If we do not protect the quiet around us, there will always be noise within us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
