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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Jerusalem the Golden,
With milk and honey blest,
eneath thy contemplation
Sink heart and voice oppressed.
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim
Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.
