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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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