Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible... Contemplation does not ignore the "historical Gethsemane," does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.
Josef PieperStichwörter: happiness god sorrow jesus contemplation
Contemplation does not rest until it has found the object which dazzles it.
Konrad WeißStichwörter: love contemplation
The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.
Josef PieperStichwörter: happiness contemplation aquinas st-thomas bartolome-de-medina
Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment "seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom, one and the same thing: that the world is plumb and sound; that everything comes to its appointed goal; that in spite of all appearances, underlying all things is - peace, salvation, gloria; that nothing and no one is lost; that "God holds in his hand the beginning, middle, and end of all that is." Such nonrational, intuitive certainties of the divine base of all that is can be vouchsafed to our gaze even when it is turned toward the most insignificant-looking things, if only it is a gaze inspired by love. That, in the precise sense, is contemplation...
Out of this kind of contemplation of the created world arise in never-ending wealth all true poetry and all real art, for it is the nature of poetry and art to be paean and praise heard above all the wails of lamentation. No one who is not capable of such contemplation can grasp poetry in a poetic fashion, that is to say, in the only meaningful fashion. The indispensability, the vital function of the arts in man's life, consists above all in this: that through them contemplation of the created world is kept alive and active.
Stichwörter: happiness love arts poetry god creation intuition contemplation divine
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
Josef PieperStichwörter: life happiness contemplation
Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.
Joel T. McGrathStichwörter: reflection contemplation
To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.
Joel T. McGrathStichwörter: insightful contemplation
An individual excels where the institution fails.
Joel T. McGrathStichwörter: oppression contemplation
Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.
Ray SimpsonStichwörter: christianity meditation contemplation celtic-spirituality eastern-religion contempative-prayer
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 SimpsonStichwörter: christianity god contemplation celtic-spirituality contemplative-prayer
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