Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears. — Confucius
The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man. — Corinne Heline
...music is the living God in our bosoms. — Richard Wagner
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being — Igor Stravinsky
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.… — Corinne Heline
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for… — William Temple
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by,… — Corinne Heline
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in… — Plutarch
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests… — Corinne Heline
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it… — Corinne Heline
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell. — Euripides
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music. — William Shakespeare
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical.… — Corinne Heline
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane… — Frances Densmore
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what emotions are aroused… — Edgar Cayce
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. — Aristotle
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential… — Carl Jung
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds... — Jacques Attali
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies… — Francis Crick
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us… — Corinne Heline

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