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Contemplation Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will…
- If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity…
- He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple…
- The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the…
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. — Jacob Bronowski
- It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation,… — Samuel Alexander
- Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. — Nicolas Chamfort
- Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own… — John Jay Chapman
- If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art… — Sri Chinmoy
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho
- Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. — Thomas Aquinas
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. — Diane Arbus