The Purpose of Contemplation
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The Purpose of Contemplation
Contemplation engages the power of mind, emotion and body. It fuses and uses their energy to bring about an increased state of self-awareness, freedom and general prosperity.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
For our purposes, contemplation refers to a wide variety of spiritual practices, including but not limited to meditation. One might take up a contemplative attitude toward cooking or walking or nursing a baby. One might sing or dance, chant or exercise in a contemplative way. One might engage in works of social justice from a contemplative frame of
... See moreWendy Farley • Beguiled by Beauty
The objective of contemplation is to keep our mind focused on one concept, but within this concept letting the mind think about and associate with similar ideas.
John Kehoe • Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind
To recognize reality as a form of illusion and illusion as a form of reality is equally necessary and equally useless. The contemplative life, to exist at all, must see real-life accidents as the scattered premises of an unattainable conclusion, but it must also consider the contingencies of dreams as in some sense worthy of the attention we give t
... See moreFernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Contemplation is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is a way to inhabit ordinary life.
Wendy Farley • Beguiled by Beauty
Throughout all these years I’ve tried to pass my words through three gates: “Is it true? Is it loving? Is it necessary?”
Because we must be sustained by a sense of what we are for, and not just what we are against. The contemplative path isn’t primarily about learning—it’s about living. Through contemplation, we begin to see differently, to love mor
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