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- The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true…
- A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her…
- Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains…
- Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than…
- 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…
- The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and…
- Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be beautiful…
- Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always loved in…
- . . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and…
- I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic…
- It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
- The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.
- To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.
- Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal…
- Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise…
More Contemplation Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho
- Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh
- 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
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting… — Henry David Thoreau
- Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and… — William Shakespeare
- Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of… — Salman Rushdie