Spiritual Contemplation Quotes

#1. I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

David Knopfler

#2. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. 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

#4. God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

Teresa Of Avila

#5. Shuddha upayog (applied awareness of the Self, The Soul) means to be able to see the Soul and the Body of the other person as separate. The constant contemplation of 'I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)' is shukladhyan (pure contemplation as the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

Albertus Magnus

#7. Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

George Santayana

#8. My only stake was the hook I shot in the moon, trying to capture stardom on my way to heaven. Without bravado. Just footsteps plodding me along till my big show. My showstopper. The one where I landed in a place without gravity.

Juliet Castle

#9. The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Sri Aurobindo

#10. If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.

John K. Brown

#11. They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Lawrence Taylor

#12. If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] .

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Importance is not in 'discharge' (of karmas) that occurs; but it is in the contemplation (dhyan) within at that time in effect that is important.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

Austin O'Malley

#15. Only when there is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) in the body, then there is shukladhyan in the Self (contemplation as the Self, the Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#16. If one can exactly see the world 'as it is'; if one can exactly see the 'relative' and the 'real', it is shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#17. Simple living is about being authentic and living an examined life and if you've thought about the values you want to live by, be confident and stick with them no matter what others around you are doing.

Rhonda Hetzel

#18. As long as your mind has the contemplation 'the tiger is a violent animal', it will remain violent. And if your contemplation is, 'the tiger is a pure soul', then it will not remain violent. Everything is possible.

Dada Bhagwan

#19. True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.

Evelyn Underhill

#20. People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Peter O'Toole

#21. How alive am I willing to be?

Anne Lamott

#22. This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

Lizz Winstead

#23. It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Lionel Trilling

#24. Gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

Riane Eisler

#25. Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become
the (d)anger within your life."

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

Leonard Perlmutter

#26. It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

Jack London

#27. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.

Lin Yutang

#28. True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Thomas Merton

#29. The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

Pete Seeger

#30. When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

Stendhal

#31. They had an instictive ability to love, so that when they encountered each other, they fitted together in a way that made the two of them more than each could ever be on their own

Garth Nix

#32. Sometimes you just have to act on your own. Sometimes you have to do what you know inside to be right.

Alyson Noel

#33. Success is not only in the hand; it is in the heart.

Bryant McGill

#34. Instrumental music was only tolerated, on account of the times and of the people. But in gospel times, we must not have recourse to these, unless we wish to destroy the evangelical perfection, and to obscure the meridian light, which we enjoy in Christ our Lord.

John Calvin

#35. Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?

Amy Litzelman