Caricatures Quote by Amanda Hocking

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

— David A. Cooper

“Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“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 find yourself…

— Andrew Cohen

“One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard , as more and more vital gestures become reduced…

— Julio Cortázar

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving,…

— Bodhidharma

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

— Frederick Lenz

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

— Richard Rohr

“There’s a Chinese proverb that says “Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you & embracing those that strengthen you” Your mind is like…

— Pablo

“Often, people build stories in their mind which have no basis in the contours of reality. Those which build these images, are building such…

— Will Barnes

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

— Josef Pieper