Quotes About Contemplation

When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us

My meditation Is my soul's Soundless sound-conversation With my Inner Pilot

Excerpt from Prayer-World, Mantra-World And Japa

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.

The third one is culturing the mind. One who has never meditated has no right to even touch the book of Ashtavakra.

Get out of the mind and into the heart.

Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?

For verses and poems I can turn to true food.

But I am unwilling to utter all that may occur to those who think of it, yet cannot be spoken without irreverence.

Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

In things of beauty, he contemplated the One who is supremely beautiful, and, led by the footprints he found in creatures, he followed the Beloved everywhere

Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find him.

Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.

I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.

The soul lets out some sighs — not great ones — because it can do no more; they are felt within.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

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Vergessen wir nicht, dass auch uns die Bakterien - von der anderen Seite des Mikroskops - betrachten.

Der Mensch atmet leichter, wenn er das Maul hält.

Es gab einen, der ein halbes Leben an einem Gedanken saß - und die andere Hälfte für diesen Gedanken.

A camera is an opening in a box: that is the best emblem of the fact that a camera holding an object is holding the rest of the world away. The camera has been praised for extending the senses; it may, as the world goes, deserve more praise for confining them, leaving room for thought.