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
Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with… — William J. Brennan 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
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
No one's quite figured out how to make the images come to the viewer. I guess if they put it on a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“Everything he wrote aims at awakening others to the contemplative dimension in themselves. His contemplative theology-as well as his entire theological "system"-emphasizes… — Wayne Teasdale 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
Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of… — Mother Teresa 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
My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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 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
“Prayer is not primarily saying words or thinking thoughts. It is, rather, a stance. It’s a way of living in the Presence,… — Richard Rohr 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
“Everyone has a contemplative side. Each person has the possibility for the sacred and to bring what he does in his daily… — Mother Noella Marcellino Copy Share Image
“Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working.… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes,… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story,… — Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar Copy Share Image
Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
