Contemplative Quotes · Page 5

In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger…

— Dalai Lama

Could the purr be anything but contemplative?

— Irving Townsend

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,…

— Bear McCreary

The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

— Gautama Buddha

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's…

— Gilles Deleuze

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind…

— Agnes Repplier

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon…

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Det va bra dokker kom. Æ satt just her og tænkte på om ho Hilvarda huska på å læmpe ut monsen før…

— Arthur Arntzen

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Protestant wing of the western church, which is a tiny percentage of the Body of Christ, is nearly completely (98%) unaware…

— Mike Bickle

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have…

— David Whyte

Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of…

— Mother Teresa

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When…

— Marianne Williamson

“I think anything like that- which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone- people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost…

— Andrew Wyeth

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a…

— Ed Helms

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that…

— John Green

Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work,…

— Neil Strauss

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

— Richard Rohr

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession…

— Eric Frank Russell

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of…

— Susan Hill

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

— Richard J. Foster