Quotes on Contemplation

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

To Time it never seems that he is brave_x000D_ _x000D_ To set himself against the peaks of snow_x000D_ _x000D_ To lay them level with the running wave,_x000D_ _x000D_ Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,_x000D_ _x000D_ But only grave, contemplative and grave.

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

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.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

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.

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.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

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.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes... Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.