Contemplation Quote by Jeremy Narby Download Open image “Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.” — Jeremy Narby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplation Investigation Meditation Mystery Research Wisdom
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites. — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
“We will discover nothing if we bind ourselves to accepted wisdoms. Questioning is necessary for discovery.” — Ros Barber Copy Share Image
There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary;… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for anything unusual,… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity and the… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, gazing out the train window at a random sample of the Western world, I could not avoid noticing a kind of separation between… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism.… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
…there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants' explanations, my… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image