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Contemplation  Quotes
I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

—Jonathan Harnisch

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AlibiographyAloneAlone-Time
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Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

—R. N.

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CommunicationContemplationIllusion
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Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

—Criss Jami

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BrainChallengeClever
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An individual excels where the institution fails.

—Joel T. McGrath

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ContemplationOppression
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My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

—Simone de

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ContemplationExcruciationJoy
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The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at...

—Thomas Merton

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ContemplationGodLoneliness
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If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.

—Federico Fellini

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ContemplationSilenceUnderstanding
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The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love.” Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

—Josef Pieper

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Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel…Sleeping our noons away

—Teitoku

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ContemplationHaikuMoon
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I wanted simultaneously to understand Hanna’s crime and to condemn it. But it was too terrible for that. When I tried to understand it, I had the feeling I was failing to condemn it as...

—Bernhard Schlink

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CondemnationContemplationDichotomy
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In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees…Strangers are like friends

—Kobayashi Issa

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ContemplationFriends
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I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt that I knew what the white man were feeling. Merely because...

—Richard Wright

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AwarenessContemplationLiterature
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As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night’s velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

—Sanober Khan

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ArmchairContemplationLiquid
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The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

—Criss Jami

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ArtContemplationCreativity
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To broaden one’s prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

—Joel T. McGrath

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ContemplationInsightful
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It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don’t mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

—Russell Kirk

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True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

—Thomas Merton

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ContemplationGodGrace
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Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

—Davis Bunn

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ContemplationPrayerWorship
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The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

—Josef Pieper

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ContemplationHappinessLife
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It is necessary … for a man to go away by himself … to sit on a rock … and ask, ‘Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

—Carl Sandburg

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ContemplationIntrospectionLife
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This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.

—Rupert Thomson

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ContemplationDeadLiving
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Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Contemplation
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The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level...

—Criss Jami

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AbhorApologeticsAvoidance
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Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh…the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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BeliefContemplationElectric-Jerks
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The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God’s theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers,...

—Victor Hugo

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CompassionContemplationCreation
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Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To...

—Thomas Merton

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ContemplationGodHoly-Spirit
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Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.

—Greil Marcus

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ContemplationCritical-ThinkingLiterature
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Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible… Contemplation does not ignore the “historical Gethsemane,” does...

—Josef Pieper

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ContemplationGodHappiness
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Wind is on fire” – beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have...

—R. N.

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ContemplationFireIdentity
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In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It’s the place of reflection and contemplation, and it’s the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

—Angeles Arrien

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ContemplationDeep-KnowingInspirtational
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If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.

—John K. Brown

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ContemplationMediationPhilosophy
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Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.

—Pat Conroy

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ContemplationDevelopmentMaturation
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing. Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experience what...

—Stephen R. Covey

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ContemplationLife-LessonsWisdom
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How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

—Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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CompassionContemplationQuiet
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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

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ContemplationReflection
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

—Victor Hugo

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ContemplationDreamingFlowers
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There is a ‘movement’ of meditation, expressing the basic ‘paschal’ rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in Christ. Sometimes prayer, meditation and contemplation are ‘death’ – a kind of descent...

—Thomas Merton

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ChristContemplationGod
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He may really have been enjoying an embryonic composition of his own stimulated by mere hints in the book.

—C.S. Lewis

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ContemplationImaginationMeditation
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You can’t memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning...

—Donald Miller

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ArtContemplationLiterature
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Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation?...

—Josef Pieper

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BusynessContemplationFreedom
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

—William Golding

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ContemplationFireKinship
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Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

—Christmas Humphreys

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BuddhismConcentrationContemplation
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No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

—Mellon Black

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AdventureContemplationLife
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The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to...

—Richelle E.

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ContemplationDreamsEmotion
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A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history… for contemplation or in fact… Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic...

—Robinson Jeffers

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Contemplation
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Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

—Giacomo Leopardi

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BenchContemplationHike
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For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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BlessingContemplationCreate
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Of the twenty-four hours a day,Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

—Sathya Baba

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Contemplation
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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...

—Thomas Merton

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ContemplationFaithLove
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One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

—Anthony Liccione

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