A Quote by Pope Gregory I
We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.
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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.
But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
