“us. The good of contemplation is contemplation—not some result that it may bring.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a universal practice, and our breath is a universal language.” — Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings Copy Share Image
We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness. — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier. — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 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
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
“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
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
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
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“…it is certain that there are many things to which our language ascribes meaning indicative of a material substance, where simple contemplation… — Gustav Landauer 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
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
“What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you… — Shannon L. Alder 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
“This is a pale reflection of a deeper truth: that the One who created us holds us with a constancy that does… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
“The present mood in which they sat relaxed was nothing more than the relief of two people coming back to a bombed… — Rosamond Lehmann 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
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“Be open to GOD’s graces, and live your life as a hymn of praise to our Creator.” — Pamela Mandela Idenya Copy Share Image
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly. — Nabil Jamal Copy Share Image
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
