Contemplation Quotes
Contemplation Quote of the day
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
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.
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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.
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.
In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
