"Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul," — Nicolas Malebranche
"Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,"
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Nicolas Malebranche
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22 Quotes by Nicolas Malebranche
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
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I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken…
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You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log…
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing…
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed…
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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop…
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All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all…
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You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil,…
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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself,…
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God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through…
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More Attentiveness Quotes
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Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.
— Peter Bart
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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a…
— Adam Zagajewski
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Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the…
— Stephen Grosz
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The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people.…
— Richard J. Foster
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Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful…
— Martin Heidegger
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Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy,…
— John W. Gardner
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I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three…
— Diane Lane
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Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even…
— Stephen Dobyns
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person.…
— Alice Miller
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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life,…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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