Best 237 quotes in «contemplation quotes» category

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

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

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

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 of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.