#contemplation

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

Contemplation does not rest until it has found the object which dazzles it. ↗

— Konrad Weiss

#love #love

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

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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

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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ↗

— Simone Weil

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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ↗

— Aristotle

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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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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. ↗

— Quintilian

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