“If you watch a contemplative person from afar, you'll start contemplating too!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You know what I like about a beard? You can always look contemplative. — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
“The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.” — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.” — Rian Nejar Copy Share Image
“Det va bra dokker kom. Æ satt just her og tænkte på om ho Hilvarda huska på å læmpe ut monsen før… — Arthur Arntzen Copy Share Image
“Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tiny Titans: A Haiku Ants toil with intent, Embrace chores they loathe and love, Unified spirits.” — Amogh Swamy Copy Share Image
“We lose, again and again, the present moment — which is not a poetic concept but the literal location of everything that… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative? — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative… — Thomas Aquinas 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
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture,… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The contemplative seeks to be drawn ever more deeply into the circle of divine being, consciousness, and bliss, the circle of God… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Protestant wing of the western church, which is a tiny percentage of the Body of Christ, is nearly completely (98%) unaware… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind… — Aristotle 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
“Oak gave up his room so they could sleep there, and although the bed is small, Cardan cannot mind when he takes… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“This is why most people do not stick with a contemplative discipline for very long; we have heard all sorts of talk… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“She’s contemplative; I can feel the air around her thick with her thoughts. “No,” she says at last, “I want to believe… — Jaden Wilkes Copy Share Image
“Contemplative prayer is not so much a type of prayer as something that should be a component of all prayer. It is… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“A serene mind does not require precepts. An upright behaviour does not need contemplative practice. 心平何勞持戒 行直何用修禪 Filial piety is gratefully taking care… — Linbergh Chu Copy Share Image
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
“Certain vocations, e.g., raising children, offer a perfect setting for living a contemplative life. They provide a desert for reflection, a real… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image