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Letter "C" » contemplation
«When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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«What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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«What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.»
«Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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