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Contemplating Quotes by Simone Weil
- Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,…
- Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for…
More Contemplating Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of… — Nhat Hanh
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
- The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to… — Charles Stanley
- These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country. — Mike Lee