“Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.” IfsBeautifulNamesForceGloryInstrumentsTongueDestroyedContemplationContemplatingEgoism Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.” ChildrenBeautifulChildhoodSorrowContemplationRetrospectHappy TimesDeep Sorrow Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.” BeautifulLanguageSexConsciousnessSubjectsClimateAvailableSexualitySnowMortalsContemplation Book:Outlander Source: Outlander
“The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.” DoeBeautifulCertainConsciousnessPlansEssenceIntentionInstinctProfoundSillyContemplationPoeticNaiveCalculationsIdealisticSilliness Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel