Contemplation Quotes And Sayings

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“You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your mind. You must choose where to live -in the light or the shadows. The most powerful tool you have is your power of choice.”
– Swami Nirmalananda

“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”
– Tahir Shah

“Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel…
Sleeping our noons away”
– Teitoku

“To Contemplation’s sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.”
– Thomas Gray

“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“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.”
– Thomas Merton

“The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.”
– Thucydides

“Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.”
– Tryon Edwards

“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation…”
– Unknown

“A Carmelite nun should be, by the very nature of her vocation, a specialist in prayer. Or, to give it a more modern twist, she is a career woman in the field of prayer and contemplation.”
– Unknown

“In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far you’ve come, or how far you have to go? Your strengths, or your weaknesses? The best that might happen, or the worst that might come to be? In your quiet moments, pay attention to your thoughts. Because maybe, just maybe, the only thing that needs to shift in order for you to experience more happiness, more love, and more vitality, is your way of thinking.”
– Unknown

“Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming — the echo of God on the human wall!”
– Victor Hugo

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
– Victor Hugo

“There is no contemplation without art.”
– Vittorio Canta

“A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.”
– W.H. Auden

“Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.”
– William Blake

“Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.”
– William Butler Yeats

“There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.”
– William Golding

“The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.”
– William Hazlitt

“When the doing is hard, there is more contemplation. When the doing is too hard, very little work is actually produced. When the doing is too easy then there can be much work but there may not be enough thought put into it.”
– William M. Dupree

“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.”
– William Penn

“Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!”
– William Shakespeare

“When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, ’tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.”
– William Shakespeare

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
– William Wordsworth

“By emulating learned ones can one attain wisdom necessary to discriminate between evil and good. These great souls have attained knowledge after great contemplation and hence their wisdom is unquestionable.”
– Yajur Veda

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