“When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.” WantArtPurposeIndividualSpaceReflectionContemplation Author:Bill Viola
“I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they’re likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they’re in grade school.” IfsThinkingGivingChildrenHelpingSchoolPrayerPracticeMeditationQuietMindfulnessReflectionOur ChildrenContemplationGradesGreatest GiftsSpunGrades In School Author:Marianne Williamson
“Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential.” WorldMeanPrayerPowerGraceShareHighestCapableReflectionCommitmentSacredProfoundGuidanceContemplationContractsProvidingInteriorsIlluminationMysticGreat GiftsTrue MeaningMonasteriesGifts Of Life Author:Caroline Myss
“If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?” IfsMindFormResultsBeautyMoralInfluenceEffectsIndustryMoralityReflectionFairsSensesContemplationDelightful Author:David Hume
“But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.” ThinkingWellsBigsProcessDecisionSilenceMusic IsReflectionContemplationEnd TimesSpend TimeMediation Author:Kimbra
“I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.” WayUsedMeditationReflectionContemplation Author:Caroline Myss
“Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.” ImportantDifferentDoneMeditationReflectionContemplation Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?” MenInspirationalAsksRocksReflectionContemplationGoing AwayThought ProvokingIntrospectionDeep ThoughtSelf ReflectionSitting Alone Author:Carl Sandburg
“Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.” TryingMindSoulSelfHappinessLife IsDifficultAchieveDisciplineReflectionContemplationSelf DisciplineDispositionTrue HappinessInner LifeTrying TimesLife Is Difficult Author:William L. Shirer
“Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious ABOUT anything. Consciousness without being conscious of anything - this is the nature of meditation.” IfsThinkingStatesUseConsciousnessMeditationObjectsEssentialsReflectionConsciousUnderstoodEssenceContemplation Author:Rajneesh
“In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.” WaySilenceKnowingMysterySweetReflectionContemplationTerritory Author:Angeles Arrien
“If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.” IfsKnowsWantShouldLongUseHandsEyeMovingJoyNamesMinesFlowerPleaseReflectionFairsMirrorsLovelyContemplationMy TimeMy SisterContemplatingWeavingGarlandsPlease MeLovely Eyes Book:The Portable Dante Source: The Portable Dante
“True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.” WorldBodyRealizingSituationFieldsReflectionHistoricalContraryDespiteContemplationIdleIdenticalSubjectivityInaccessiblePhenomenology Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings
“But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.” IfsIdeasClassObjectsReflectionTreatedContemplationSensations Author:Samuel Alexander
“Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.” ThinkingWaySelfPhilosophyGivenImaginationRolesCreativityMeditationReflectionScientistImportancePhilosopherInsightIntuitionContemplationFree WillInquiryDomainImagination CreativitySad Times Author:Deepak Chopra
“What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.” MenWellsLittlesEnoughEarthBeautifulNightStarsHoursWalksStudyFeetSkyFlowerNeededReflectionGardenBackgroundsContemplationOld ManDividedLeisureGardeningSublimeAdoreDaytimeImmensityStars In The SkyEnclosure Author:Victor Hugo
“The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible. I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.” KnowsWellsDarkImagineWorstQuietReflectionInsanityThings To DoContemplationContemplatingWorst ThingsQuiet Place Author:Tara Brown
“Personal ignorance and shallow thoughts led me to misconstrue reality. Instead of taking an occasional respite from meeting work related deadlines and reflecting upon the growth of the inner self, all my personal energy was devoted to efficiently performing daily tasks, responding to the never-ending heave of the external world of busyness. Busy people tabulate the value of their life of work by what they achieved, which can prove meritorious. We can also hide from ourselves by never devoting select intervals of quietness for self-reflection. We need periods of silence and contemplation in order to nurture our spiritual development.” SilenceMeditationIgnoranceReflectionIgnorantContemplationQuietnessReflectQuite Time Book:Dead Toad Scrolls Source: Dead Toad Scrolls