Quotes about Contemplation
15:9). Big Truth is intended to deeply change the seer himself or herself, or it is not Big Truth—or truth at all. Some form of contemplative practice is the key to this larger seeing and this larger knowing.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Whenever God is conceived in the soul, it is always an allowing, never an accomplishment.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
To keep the mind space open, you need some form of meditative practice—something much more than saying prayers. In fact, if recitation of prayers does not lead to a change in consciousness, it is actually counterproductive.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
- Kathleen Norris
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
- Pope John Paul II
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
- Victor Hugo
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
- William James
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
- St. Anthony of Padua
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
- Teresa of Avila
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
- John of the Cross