How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?
Colleen Patrick-GoudreauTags: compassion silence spirituality quiet contemplation reknewal
To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: belief contemplation believers
So many leaves have fallen on my life. Some settled nicely to rest, but most fell, withered to bitter cold and drifted on. But, after all that, I would brave all the coldness of humanity again for the sight of a few more beautiful yellow leaves falling on Aspen, and the birds....
E.S. LehmanTags: contemplation
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
Tahir ShahTags: time thought contemplation pondering luxury
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.
Thomas MertonTags: god solitude loneliness meditation contemplation
Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?
amy litzelmanTags: wonder walking contemplation
I cannot begin to say where this belief in Prophecy comes from. The future surely holds the same for us all and that is to return to the Goddess in death. What matters most is what we do while we are here! May the Goddess grant the Gryffin wisdom as they pursue their Destiny. By bringing them to contemplate their actions, she might teach them that happiness and fulfillment are concerns of the present as well as the future.
S.J. FaerlindTags: inspirational prophecy contemplation meaningful
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
Thomas AquinasTags: contemplation
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor HugoTags: thinking dreaming flowers les-miserables gardens contemplation victor-hugo
It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.
Russell KirkTags: education college work american contemplation university
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