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Tag Name "Contemplation" (353)

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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
Pythagoras
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
Gabriel Marcel
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
Lewis H. Lapham
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By turns the nine delight to sing
Homer
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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.
Angeles Arrien
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I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?
William Gilmore Simms
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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.
Josef Pieper
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Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.
Paul Twitchell
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I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.
Goldie Hawn
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My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
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Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them
Walter Benjamin
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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
Gautama Buddha
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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects.
Baron d'Holbach
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If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.
Edgar Cayce
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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.
Clare of Assisi
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Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.
Jacques Attali
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Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.
Richard Rohr
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What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. Without love there would be no contemplation. Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.
Josef Pieper
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Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.
Russell M. Nelson
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The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Christian Morgenstern
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The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they might wish to do so. Yet they are always ready to exchange the quiet of contemplation for the works of mercy as soon as they perceive in their heart the invitation of Christ.
Anthony of Padua
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