#contemplation

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#love #lucidity #nature #love

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. McGrath

#reflection #imagination

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others. And if you cannot do so by word, then by example. Yet if this sublime fire of infused love burns in your soul, it will inevitably send forth throughout the Church and the world an influence more tremendous than could be estimated by the radius reached by words or by example. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#faith #love #perfection #prayer #faith

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#concentration #consciously #contemplation #divine #easily

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #contemplation #developed #developing #ended

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#created #i #life #service #style

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. ↗

— James Monroe

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Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#challenges #contemplation #contemporary #deal #death

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. ↗

— James Harrington

#being #brought #contemplation #forth #his

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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