Contemplative Living Quotes

#1. Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Thomas Merton

#2. Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.

Amy Sedaris

#3. I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Alice Walker

#4. Starting is good. You can't get anywhere at all if you never start.

Patricia C. Wrede

#5. Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

Neal Shusterman

#6. Perhaps he anticipated our anticipation of his anticipation . . .

Tarun Shanker

#7. Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.

John Flanagan

#8. An examined life, an enigmatic investigation of reality, is required in order for a person to realize a transcendent spiritual journey. A contemplative soul is bound to live life more intensely than someone whom is concerned exclusively with living an external existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women in post-Christian America. The man whose desires are under the control of his reason is free. The man who does whatever occurs to him is a slave. Untold

Rod Dreher

#10. Living in the moment is great, but there's something uniquely powerful about the contemplative life. I think if we slowed down enough to think about what we say, consider the consequences of our actions and reactions, the world would be a better place.

Nicole Baart

#11. Teenagers think they're invincible

John Green

#12. Spirit of love and communion, give me grace to understand the mind of Christ. Let me do his will by obedience to the revelation of the Father's will that all of us be "one body." I cannot understand the depths of this mystery. Give me the grace to love it.

The Merton Institute For Contemplative Living

#13. Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

Izzy Stradlin

#14. It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.

Jay Parini

#15. The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.

Michelle Alexander