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Contemplative Quotes
On slowing down, reflecting, and thinking things through.
This contemplative quotes collection includes a defense of baseball's deliberate pace against efforts to speed it up with music. See Life quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
- Basic Elements
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.
- Great Value
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
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