Contemplation Quotes And Sayings

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“Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.”
– Ray Simpson

“Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.”
– René Descartes

“Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.”
– Richard J. Foster

“Contemplation gives direction to our knowledge and leads to realization.”
– Rig Veda

“We should try to acquire knowledge from all the sources and by all means-studying the scriptures, contemplation, meditation, etc.”
– Rig Veda

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

“To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay them level with the running wave,
Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
But only grave, contemplative and grave.”
– Robert Frost

“There is no art without contemplation.”
– Robert Henri

“Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.”
– Ross Perot

“It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don’t mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.”
– Russell Kirk

“Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.”
– Russell M. Nelson

“A man, who realizes the potential of his mind by means of introspection and contemplation, he does not lack self-confidence. He has control over his mind and he is able to realize it’s full potential. ”
– Sam Veda

“Anybody desirous of success should spend some time in introspection and contemplation.”
– Sam Veda

“It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.”
– Samuel Alexander

“But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.”
– Samuel Alexander

“Contemplation is the root of awareness and creativity.”
– Sandra Chantry

“Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what’s working and what’s not, so that we can make changes for the better.”
– Sarah Breathnach

“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.”
– Sarah McLachlan

“It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me.”
– Sasha Mizaree

“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”
– Simone Weil

“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
– Simone Weil

“We want a state wise in its contemplation – just in its actions – and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.”
– Sonny Perdue

“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”
– Sri Chinmoy

“Hypocrisy is not devotion – speaking words of duality leads only to misery. Those humble beings who are filled with keen understanding and meditative contemplation – even though they intermingle with others, they remain distinct.”
– Sri Guru Granth

“Be Silent yourself, that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, wherever you happen to be. The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently, you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this, you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.”
– Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.”
– Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas

“Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas

“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas

“Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.”
– Swami Nirmalananda

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