Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit… — John of the Cross
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial… — Corinne Heline
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces… — Alexandra David-Neel
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig van Beethoven
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system… — Corinne Heline
I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause… — Leonard Bernstein
If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to… — Edgar Cayce
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals… — Nadia Boulanger
The magic of "Musical Medicine" will come into its own. The application of such healing potencies will not be limited just to man's body and… — Corinne Heline
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. — Ludwig van Beethoven
The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to the… — Corinne Heline
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet… — William Shakespeare
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual… — Ambrose
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and… — Porphyry
...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day he… — Corinne Heline
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings. — William Shakespeare
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
By turns the nine delight to sing — Homer
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances… — Corinne Heline
I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the… — Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and… — Unknown Author
Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. — Confucius

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