Contemplating Quotes - Page 18

• I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God

  Gertrude the Great

  Joy, Heaven, Vision

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• But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.

  Martin Buber

  Thinking, Tree, Grace

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• My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

  Eric Clapton

  Summer, Suicide, Memories

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of oneness. It is everywhere, available to anyone at any time. It is us, the force within that makes us stable, trusting, and loving. It is contemplation contemplating. Peace is letting go - returning to the silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Letting Go, Oneness, Rivers

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

  Walt Whitman

  Integrity, Listening To Others, Independence

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

  Vanna Bonta

  War, Insane, World

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• Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Abandon, Awakened

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.98, Beacon Press

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• The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

  Mike Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Talking

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• It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

  Wendell Berry

  Long, Analogies, Soil

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• Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

  Simone Weil

  Power, Purity, Defilement

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.

  Murtala Mohammed

  Heart, Evil, Very True

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• It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.

  Michael Palin

  Suicide, Baby, War

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• I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

  Carole Lombard

  Fate, Reality, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.

  Harold Klemp

  Contemplation

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• When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors.

  Ann Coulter

  Regret, College, Order

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.67, Crown Forum

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• We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

  Dirk Benedict

  Education, Unique, Voice

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• We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

  M. Scott Peck

  Meaningful, Thinking, Praying

  M. Scott Peck (2011). “The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.56, Random House

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• If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flower, Moving, Eye

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.420, Penguin

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

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Life Is, Contemplation

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.485, Penguin

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• The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Artist, Men, He Man

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Faith, Stars, Inspiration

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Body, Dissolution

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• Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

  James Buchan

  Oil, Addiction, Different

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• The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Thinking, Looks, Praying

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