“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
“How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it… — John G Neihardt Copy Share Image
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you… — 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
Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection… — Salvador Bernal 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
As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a… — T. H. Watkins Copy Share Image
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
[William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine - very glitzy covers that promised practically… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being… — John Main Copy Share Image
“He looks out the window at the falling snow, then turns and takes his wife in his arms, feeling grateful to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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