C Quotes
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“Contanto somente como o poder de sua mente, você tem de operar os símbolos que estão diante de você a fim de elevar-se do estado de entendimento inferior ao estado de entendimento superior. Essa elevação consiste em uma leitura criteriosa - o tipo de leitura que todo o livro desafiador merece.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“Contar cualquier historia es contar cicatrices.”
Source: Si las piedras hablaran
“contar historias es justamente esto: encontrar la conexión que logra reunir a los seres humanos más allá del tiempo y el espacio”
Source: Recordarán tu nombre
“Contar una película es como contar un sueño. Contar una vida es como contar un sueño o una película.”
Source: La contadora de películas
“Contare i sassi perdendo il conto
è il senso della nostra vita: l'algebra
dei nostri spostamenti.
Seguire percorsi perdendo il senso
è la circonvoluzione, l'evolversi: la logica
dei nostri istanti. Ma. No.
Non c'è simmetria nei nostri atti.
Mai il caso dei passi ci sorprenderà
di sale.
La nostra macchina del tempo. Avanti.
Mai indietro la macchina di carne.
Indietro non si torna. Indietro non si torna.
Non c'è rimedio: la morte
è un'asimmetria inguaribile.
Enorme il ticchettio dell'Orologio ma
ma il nostro tempo ha la stretta, il vortice
l'acqua di sale di un'onda che ci copre.
Rifà ed incava il viso, come sabbia
ci porta via la carne.”
Source: Of Time and Goats
“Contempla il dolore del mondo con tenerezza, ma lotta con determinazione contro l'ingiustizia. Sii riconoscente di far parte dell'universo. Non corrompere e non lasciarti corrompere. Ogni sforzo che ritieni inutile per migliorare la società fallo tre volte. Sii cavaliere dei tuoi fantasmi e danza con i tuoi peggiori incubi (ma soltanto su una grande musica). Dai piacere agli altri, soprattutto se sei infelice. Accarezza gli animali, le piante, i sassi come se fossero i tuoi bambini. Considera la mente un bel giardino e coltiva i tuoi pensieri come rose.”
Source: Nessuno può sfrattarci dalle stelle
“Contempla que todo es posible.
Si de pronto te da miedo nadar muy lejos océano adentro, da la vuelta y regresa al barco.
Respira.
Recuerda que la belleza existe y que la verdad no existe. Nota que la idea de verdad es tan poderosa como la de belleza”
Source: How to Be Perfect: Poems
“Contemplación es el nombre que la gente astuta le da a la pereza para justificarse ante los que vigilan para que «cada cual cumpla su papel en la sociedad activa».”
Source: Dans les forêts de Sibérie
“Contemplación para alcanzar amor. Primero conviene advertir en dos cosas. La primera es que el amor se debe poner más en las obras que en las palabras. La segunda: el amor consiste en comunicación de las dos partes, es a saber, en dar y comunicar el amante al amado lo que tiene, o de lo que tiene o puede, y así, por el contrario, el amado al amante. De manera que si el uno tiene ciencia, dar al que no la tiene, si honores, si riquezas, y así el otro al otro.”
Source: The Spiritual Exercises
“Contemplando el pasado, parece que siempre leí en posición incómoda. (Que es la forma en que escriben la mayoría de los escritores, según compruebo). Pero lo leído penetró. Lo importante es, y debo recalcarlo, que leía sin desviar la atención con todas mis facultades que poseía.”
Source: Leer en el retrete
“Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.”
“Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you.”
“Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.”
Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.”
“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.”
“Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.”
Source: Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems
“CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.”
“Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.”
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“Contemplate without thinking. Be certain only in your uncertainty, content to be completely incomplete. Stop the rush. Slow down time. Breathe and notice. Slow down everything. Let it all be. Shut off the noise. Hush. Relax. Seize this higher moment. Reconnect. Feel and sense what surrounds you. Listen to all the colours of light whisper as they envelope you. See the melody and harmony that float about unnoticed. Taste the solitude of all this wonderment. Smell the beautiful silence. Now discover your peaceful serenity. Then, reach out and touch your faith with all your senses. This is my world. Awaken!”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Part Sept
“contemplate without thinking. stop the world. slow down everything. shut off the noise. relax. seize this moment. reconnect. feel and sense what surrounds you. listen to all the colors of light that envelope you. see the melody and harmony that floats about unnoticed. taste the solitude of all this wonderment. smell the beautiful silence within your peaceful serenity. then, reach out and touch your faith. this is my world. awaken.”
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.”
Source: Timequake
“Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.”
“Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.”
“Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.”
Source: The ides of March
“Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.”
“contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.”
Source: Five Passengers From Lisbon
“Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.”
“Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.”
“Contemplating, thinking hard, I don't make judgement but i have decided”
“Contemplating whether or not everything you’ve learned is a lie is worse than terrifying.”
Source: Crocodile Tears
“Contemplation - A Haiku
Amber autumn gaze,
A pond of deep reflection,
Awareness ripples.”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.”
“Contemplation cultivates an inner connection, an awareness of yourself.
I don’t mean your emotional self; I mean the part of you hidden beneath your
emotional baggage—your soul’s consciousness.”
Source: Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness: Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth
“Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.”
“Contemplation filled the air as a chill rolled through the room. Silence descended as the four of us turned to study the board as one. It's overlapping pages, threadbare twine, and handwritten scrawl, overloaded with information, inundating with questions, each more pressing than the last. Were we looking for a lone killer? If so, had our eyewitnesses glimpsed him in the night? When and where would he strike next? And why? And, grimmest of all, after Kelly, what would it look like?" ~ Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline, The Ripper Lives: To Catch a Killer”
Source: The Ripper Lives
“Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.”
“Contemplation in life is more important than bullshit. So enjoy Silence.”
“Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.”
“Contemplation is a gaze of faith, fixed on Jesus. "I look at him and he looks at me": this is what a certain peasant of Ars in the time of his holy cure used to say while praying before the tabernacle. This focus on Jesus is a renunciation of self. His gaze purifies our heart; the light of the countenance of Jesus illumines the eyes
of our heart and teaches us to see everything in the light of his truth and his compassion for all men. Contemplation also turns its gaze on the mysteries of the life of Christ. Thus it learns the "interior knowledge of our Lord," the more to love him and follow him.”
“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”
Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition
“Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to face with the self. And then, of course, something must be done. Nothing stays the same once we have found the God within…. We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child.”
“Contemplation is also the response to a call: a call from Him who has no voice, and yet who speaks in everything that is, and who, most of all, speaks in the depths of our own being: for we ourselves are words of his. But we are words that are meant to respond to him, to answer to him, to echo him, and even in some way to contain him and signify him. Contemplation is this echo. It is a deep resonance in the inmost center of our spirit in which our very life loses its separate voice and re-sounds with the majesty and the mercy of the Hidden and Living One. He answers himself in us and this answer is divine life, divine creativity, making all things new. We ourselves become his echo and his answer. It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation he answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.”
“Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.”
“Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.”
Source: The Collected Works of St John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the Liv
“Contemplation is purer still, yet more sophisticated. This comes from a strongly developed base of concentration—basically, constancy—through any temptation, including altered states of consciousness, that leads one to meditation (effortless engagement), from which is born an intuitive connection to that which is being focused upon (often, the nature of being in the moment, which is the default “focus”). Some people can attain this state accidentally through some combination of surprising events, which is sometimes called revelation. Fewer still can cause this to happen intentionally, mainly because you have to surprise yourself to have it occur. In any case, it requires a real sense of the value of paradox. One leaves a single position behind (such as “I like this” or “I don’t like this”) and expands in comprehension to simultaneously experience its opposite as well. From there, one rises above the two through a creative burst of intuition, and looks down on them both. What you might call transcendence, although I prefer mildly amused.”
Source: Re:
“Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.”