C Quotes
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“Contemplation is the ability to see the world around us as God sees it. Contemplation is a sacred mindfulness of my holy obligation to care for the world I live in. Contemplation is awareness of God within me and in the people around me. Contemplation is consciousness of the real fullness of life. Contemplatives don't let one issue in life consume all their nervous energy or their hope. ... God is calling me on and on and on, beyond all these partial things, to the goodness of the whole of life and my responsibility to it.”
“Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.”
Source: Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage
“Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.”
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Contemplation, normally regarded as a private pursuit, needs communal support. We are most likely to risk its vulnerabilities and be faithful to its implications when we are embedded in a community that both invokes and witnesses our truth, a rare form of community in which we learn to be alone together, to support one another on a solitary journey. We practice being present to others without being invasive or evasive, neither trying to fix them with advice nor turning away when they share something distressing. Imagine yourself sitting by the bedside of a dying person, who is making the most solitary journey of all. Here, we must lose both the arrogance that makes us think we can fix the other, and the cowardice that tempts us to turn away. Since we are all dying all the time, why not practice this way of relating before the final hour?”
Source: The Catholic Guide to Depression: How the Saints, the Sacraments, and Psychiatry Can Help You Break Its Grip and Find Happiness Again
“Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.”
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
“Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.”
“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“Contemplation that never leads to anything other than contemplation is contemplation that we’ve dressed up in the garb of progress so that we can tell ourselves that we’re doing something productive when in fact we’re contemplating how we can avoid doing anything.”
“Contemplation will not bring you peace. Or, if you receive peace you will also receive new sufferings and new conflict. It involves opening the Eye of the Heart, and while this allows us to perceive ourselves in Christ, it also allows us to see Christ in the world, and in the world Christ is everywhere Crucified. It is a terrible thing to behold.”
Source: This Dark Age - 2024 Edition - Volume 6: Counsels
“Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.”
“Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.”
“Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.”
Source: Biathanatos
“Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.”
“Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.”
“Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.”
“Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.”
Source: Exploring Celtic Spirituality
“contemplé la ciudad abajo, una geometría cubista reverberante bajo el sol de julio. Parecía como si la ciudad entera fuera un reflejo de la que fue y que tanto me costaba reconocer.”
Source: Vagalume
“Contempló a su mejor amigo, moviéndose de aquí a allá con el violín, escondido bajo una expresión austera, agitando de arriba abajo y de atrás para adelante aquel pulcro arco de cerdas de caballo, haciendo vibrar sobre las cuerdas miles de fantasías tonales de autoría propia. Hernán se había transfigurado por completo. Había dejado de ser un niño que jugaba a dar pinceladas musicales. Se había convertido en un hombre que se alzaba y florecía en una repentina explosión de virtud.”
Source: Melodías Sepultadas
“Contemporaneous faith invokes a stance that is opposite to triumphalism, fact-gathering or apologetics.”
Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism
“Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.”
Source: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
“Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”
“Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.”
“Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.”
“Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.”
“Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.”
“Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators.”
“Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.”
“Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects us to the past, from a perspective of artistic evolution in which the succession of eras and styles gives meaning to creation.”
“Contemporary art hates you.”
“Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.”
“Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When the artist produces something he or she relates to it with the eye of an art historian/critic. I have the feeling that when I am working it is more like working with soap opera or glamour. It is emotional and not art criticism or history of art.”
“Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of 'don't know'. The over-prioritising of meaning gets in the way of just experiencing the art in a more sensual way. Judging quality purely from an intuitive emotional response needs more confidence and experience than just working it out like a crossword clue.”
“Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.”
“contemporary art reasserting its existence rather than as individual personal expression”
Source: Notes on ‘Camp’
“Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.”
“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of land preserved in their original state. If asked to discuss the issue at all, many laymen have maintained this much, that parks are bits of nature created only in the sense that some decision was made not to build on the land. Many are surprised to learn that parks that an artifact conceived and deliberated as carefully as public buildings, with both physical shape and social usage taken into account. The second, a little more informed, is that parks are aesthetic objects and that their history can be understood in terms of an evolution of artistic styles independent of societal considerations. The third is the view that each of the elements of the urban park represents part of planners' strategy for moral and social reform, so that today, as in the past, the citizen visiting a park is subject to an accumulated set of intended moral lessons.”
Source: The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
“Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.”
“Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.”
“Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible”
“Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.”
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.”
“Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I think that it's very important to resist that anxiety, to think of ways of resisting the constant inflow of negative feelings, not to become depoliticized as a result but to actually work actively to bring into being an optimistic future.”
“Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.”
“Contemporary culture presupposes performance, a put-up-or-shut-up mind-set in which virtually every, from the banal to the most intimate, is photographed, documented, videotaped, and evaluated.”
“Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.”
“Contemporary eyes, vintage soul.”