Addiction Quote by Richard Rohr

Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at…

— Thomas Merton

“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence…

— Thomas Merton

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Contemplation, as it has come to be understood in the Christian tradition, is a return to the paradisiacal state of union with God, which…

— William Shannon

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

— Thomas Merton

“Contemplation is precisely the awareness that this “I” is really “not I” and the awakening of the unknown “I” that is beyond observation and…

— Thomas Merton

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a…

— Thomas Merton

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

— Bruce Lee

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

— Anonymous

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

— Josef Pieper

Action and contemplation are...

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from…

— Evelyn Underhill