Contemplative Quotes

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Could the purr be anything but contemplative?

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.