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All artist of some measure contemplative. — Evelyn Underhill

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out. — Djuna Barnes

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called. — Henri Nouwen

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality. — Tilden Edwards

We were sharing a rare point in time, contemplative, and the moment was made complete by his vintage sunglasses, bringing the night indoors. — Don DeLillo

the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life. — Peter Kreeft

No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act. — Haruki Murakami

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world. — Daniel J. Rice

How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad. — John G. Neihardt

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers. — Timothy Radcliffe

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active. — William Kingdon Clifford

But once we become practiced at a contemplative worldview, a "thisness" way of seeing, there is nothing trivial anymore and all is grace. — Richard Rohr

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. — Thomas Merton

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative. — Richard Rohr

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person. — Ed Helms

The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad. — Robert Walser

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer. — Richard J. Foster

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. — Lord David Cecil

In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time. — Dave Morris

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. — Alice Walker

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain. — David Brazzeal

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life. — Andrew Lang

Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery — Pete Wentz

A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only. — Gautama Buddha

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God. — Joan D. Chittister

Contemplative simplicity isn't a matter of circumstances; it's a matter of focus. — Ann Voskamp

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb

Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking. A — Kevin Kelly

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. — Georges Canguilhem

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated. — David A. Cooper

In my personal life, I am very contemplative. — Antonio Banderas

Experience is the byproduct of agony. — Joel T. McGrath

Could the purr be anything but contemplative? — Irving Townsend

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle.

Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick. — Margo Jefferson

Perhaps ... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark. — Sylvia Boorstein

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. — Nicolas Chamfort

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within. — Hans Keilson

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now. — Anne Heche

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. — Thomas Merton

There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer — Mike Bickle

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others. — Kathleen Norris

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative? — Michael Arad

Cats, on the other hand, are similar to Vulcans - dispassionate, contemplative and pointy-eared. — George Takei

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends. — Thomas Aquinas

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time. — Richard Rohr

Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers," Gunnar said. "It is the contemplative man's recreation. — Clare Vanderpool

Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer. — Larry Crabb

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. — Walter Scott

To praise the contemplative life is not to reject every other form of life, but to seek a solid foundation for every other human striving. Without — Thomas Merton

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery

He poured himself a glass of whiskey. And another. And another. Not enough to get stinking drunk, just enough to make him overly contemplative. — Julia Quinn