Contemplative Quotes - Page 4

• The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda (1959). “Raja Yoga”, p.42, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Pain, Winning, Voice

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• Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

  Eric Frank Russell

  Hazards, Infinite, Astronaut

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• No one's quite figured out how to make the images come to the viewer. I guess if they put it on a conveyor belt, you could stand in one place like at sushi restaurants. That could be a next generation of museums. Someone should try that. I think ideally you want to have a contemplative space for the viewer. And shuffling around like a chain gang does work against that.

  David Salle

  Thinking, Trying, Gang

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

  Andrew Lang

  Cat, Animal, Contemplative Life

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• Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Film, Unusual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Home, Games

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• The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But this going-out is an upheaval, a complete turnabout of such proportions it cannot possibly be missed, under-emphasized, or sufficiently stressed as a major landmark in the contemplative life.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Fall, Contemplative Life, Self

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.13, SUNY Press

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• In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

  Antonio Banderas

  Personal Life

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• To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

  Janet Fitch

  Home, Thinking, Play

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• I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

  Richard Rohr

  Teaching, Years, Lasts

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order

  William J. Brennan

  Exercise, Order, Justice

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• Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stubborn, Serious, Heat

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• Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

  Larry Crabb

  Prayer, Unique, Centering

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence J. Crabb (2007). “The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fun, Love Is, Interesting

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• ...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Dog, Live Life, Heart

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• [William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine - very glitzy covers that promised practically nothing in terms of what was inside, very rushed paper anymore. You - not very contemplative, thoughtful or whatever.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Thoughtful, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my name or form? What is my purpose if there is one? What do I want out of my life? What am I grateful for? Just a little bit of reflection like that starts you on the journey.

  Deepak Chopra

  Grateful, Journey, Reflection

  Source: www.biography.com

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• I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Technology, Emotional, Thinking

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• Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get ahaead of him, he'll probably try to beat you, and from then on it will be nothing but a foot-race instead of a contemplative and inspiring recreation.

  Ray Bergman

  Lakes, Race, Sea

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• Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Conquer The World, Atheism, Active

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Attitude

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• The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.

  B. W. Powe

  Country, Ideas, People

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.

  David Bentley

  Art, Prayer, Simple

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