Contemplation Quotes (1088 Quotes)

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

Detroit was just like a New York or San Francisco as far as having artists and the music culture, except it was more of a reflection of the Midwest and the car culture a little hard-edged.

With the mind centered in meditation on the True Lord, anguish is eradicated, and one comes to dwell in peace. Such is the True Guru, the Great Giver.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

So far, we've built awareness. Seven years ago we weren't a very well known brand. Now we are, and now we have to build preference and emotional attachment.

Not only are emergency worker not able to effectively coordinate rescue efforts, but they are compromising their individual safety since they don't have the luxury of having situational awareness.

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Cash bonus and compensation overall is down and is a reflection of earnings of the previous year. These types of compensations are tied to company performance.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirthit is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles.Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candyit is a season of dedication and decision.

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

Openness is very important for us, and for our customers. There's more awareness, but as the situation in Massachusetts demonstrates, we still have more work to do in terms of emphasizing our work with open formats.

The paper on Iran is a paper of reflection. As you know the situation of Iran today is in the Security Council. It has been a statement by the Presidency of Council last month.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

We have come down a percentage point or so (in operating margins). That is a reflection of stronger competition.

This is insanity. If this is a reflection of the company going on the Internet and the company doesn't even have a site yet, this is insanity.

Put in perspective, these levels are as high as they were in the late 1960s, so the fact that we've come off a little bit is most likely the reflection of anticipation of higher interest rates.

Intel Inside' is one of the great ones, one of the most brilliant marketing strategies in the last 10 years. Now they achieved awareness, it's over, and they need to move on.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

It's a good time of year to raise awareness, when it's real cold out. More Americans are thinking about poverty and homelessness this time of year.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Transcendental meditation is evil because when you are meditating, it opens space within you for the devil to enter.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

We desperately need a deal before Christmas, and we have to hope that President Clinton's coming heralds the end game -- because the alternative is just too terrible to contemplate.

The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voila une chose You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow Ah, voila une chose

To have him on the bench with me today, there's no greater family moment. Give him the credit for my abilities. What I do is a reflection of him.

There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous 'wisdom of egolessness.' When you live in the wisdom home, you'll no longer find a barrier between 'I' and 'you,' 'this' and 'that,' 'inside' and 'outside' you'll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of non-duality.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Our results suggest that meditation can produce experience-based structural alterations in the brain. We also found evidence that meditation may slow down the aging-related atrophy of certain areas of the brain.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

Objects speak objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them We have nothing sensible to say to them. Haven't we learned in the last thousand years that the more we confront objects with the reflection of their appearance, the more silent they become.

I expect that these infringement proceedings will attract member states' awareness, that these things will be (fixed). I hope there will be measures taken by the member states.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Should the President's budget be approved as is, every region in the country-and thus our state as well-would stand to lose resources that help prevent youth violence and promote drug awareness. This would be particularly devastating to those communities in the 6th District combating a growing opiate problem among their youth.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

When the mind disciplined by the practice of meditation becomes steady, one becomes content in the Self by beholding Him with purified intellect.

You are always picking up odd-shaped stones, pebbles and fossils, saying that you do this because it pleases you, but I know better. Deep inside you there must be an awareness of the rock power, of the spirits in them, otherwise you would not pick them up and fondle them as you do.

These acts are a reflection of the level of barbarism that occur in our society. It shows that people easily lose control of their temper.

Rhythm is the true meditation. You're there on the beat, or you're not there. When you get into a trance, you forget all about time and you get lost.

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.