Contemplation Quotes

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

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 hair.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

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

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

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.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

Happiness is essentially a gift

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.