Contemplation Archives - Spiritual Quotes https://spiritual-quotes.org/tag/contemplation/ Quotes for Any Occasion Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:12:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 It is easy to understand God https://spiritual-quotes.org/health/it-is-easy-to-understand-god/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:33:46 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1100 It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him. – Joubert

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]]> It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.

– Joubert

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]]> What lies within https://spiritual-quotes.org/the-meaning-of-life/what-lies-within/ https://spiritual-quotes.org/the-meaning-of-life/what-lies-within/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:34:33 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1086 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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]]> https://spiritual-quotes.org/the-meaning-of-life/what-lies-within/feed/ 1 Mirror of eternity https://spiritual-quotes.org/health/mirror-eternity/ Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:00:39 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=995 Place your mind before the mirror of eternity, place your soul in the brightness of His glory, place your heart in the image of the divine essence and transform yourself by contemplation utterly into the image of His divinity, that you too may feel what His friends feel as they taste the hidden sweetness that […]

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]]> Place your mind before the mirror of eternity,
place your soul in the brightness of His glory,
place your heart in the image of the divine essence
and transform yourself by contemplation
utterly into the image of His divinity,
that you too may feel what His friends feel as they taste
the hidden sweetness that God himself has set aside
from the beginning for those who love Him.

Casting aside all things in this false and troubled world
that ensnare those who love them blindly,
give all your love to Him who gave Himself in all
for you to love:
Whose beauty the sun and moon admire, and whose gifts
are abundant and precious and grand without end.

– Saint Clare of Assisi

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]]> He travels with whoever looks for Him https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/travels-whoever-looks/ Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:34:42 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1069 He travels with whoever looks for Him, and having taken the seeker by the hand, He arouses him to go in search of himself. – Al-Ansari

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]]> He travels with whoever looks for Him,
and having taken the seeker by the hand,
He arouses him to go in search of himself.

– Al-Ansari

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]]> Finding happiness https://spiritual-quotes.org/happiness/finding-happiness/ Sun, 06 Jul 2014 11:05:20 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1059 It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. – Schopenhauer

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]]> It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

– Schopenhauer

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]]> The I that sees me https://spiritual-quotes.org/health/sees/ Sun, 06 Jul 2014 10:49:35 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1053 There was a young man who said ‘though It seems that I know that I know, What I would like to see Is the I that sees me When I know that I know that I know’. – Alan Watts

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]]> There was a young man who said ‘though
It seems that I know that I know,
What I would like to see
Is the I that sees me
When I know that I know that I know’.

– Alan Watts

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]]> The richest gem of all https://spiritual-quotes.org/health/richest-gem/ Thu, 29 May 2014 09:08:45 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=997 Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court […]

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]]> Dwell, O mind, within yourself;
Enter no other’s home.
If you but seek there, you will find
All you are searching for.

God, the true Philosopher’s Stone,
Who answers every prayer,
Lies hidden deep within your heart,
The richest gem of all.

How many pearls and precious stones
Are scattered all about
The outer court that lies before
The chamber of your heart!

– Sri Ramakrishna

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]]> The wind in the pine trees https://spiritual-quotes.org/health/wind-pine-trees/ Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:48:33 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=909 No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. – Thomas Merton

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]]> No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

– Thomas Merton

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]]> The best act of worship https://spiritual-quotes.org/the-meaning-of-life/best-act-worship/ Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:03:21 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=867 The best act of worship is watchfulness of the moments. That is, that the servant not look beyond his limit, and not contemplate anything other than his Lord, and not associate with anything other than his present moment. – Abu Bakr Muhammad Al-Wasiti

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]]> The best act of worship is watchfulness of the moments.
That is, that the servant not look beyond his limit, and not
contemplate anything other than his Lord, and not associate
with anything other than his present moment.

– Abu Bakr Muhammad Al-Wasiti

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]]> The silence of the mountain https://spiritual-quotes.org/loss/silence-mountain/ Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:09:39 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=801 You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being. – Ramana Maharshi

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]]> You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

– Ramana Maharshi

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