Contemplative Practice Quotes

#1. Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.

Lee L Jampolsky

#2. The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.

Bobby Orr

#3. I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Lucy Walker

#4. Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#5. The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produce?' Let us, then, consider literature as a productive science.

J.V. Cunningham

#6. Air - the element of clarity of thought, of inspiration, insight, and fresh starts. He smiled a little, and as the scene began to fade, he let it go easily. Because he knew that with Air, there would always be something new to come, to challenge and inspire him.

Christie Golden

#7. I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

John Hurt

#8. The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

#11. My grandmother told me, "Words are holy. Treat them with respect. There's power there.

Alma Hogan Snell

#12. Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

Thomas Aquinas

#13. There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

Brother Lawrence

#14. The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

Albert Einstein

#15. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#16. Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God's plan for you.

Elizabeth George

#17. I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ...

Fanny Lewald

#18. When studying the world's religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.

Gudjon Bergmann

#19. A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. NThat is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.

Sakyong Mipham

#20. In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.

Isidore Of Seville

#21. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. There

Ralph Waldo Emerson