Contemplation

Sobre Contemplation

““The kingdom of heaven is within you.” And concerning the inner man, it consists of nothing but contemplation. Therefore the kingdom of heaven must be contemplation.”
— Basil of Caesarea, Letters, translated by R. Deferrari (1926), p. 89
“One can not justify all that is by asserting that everything may equally be the object of contemplation, since man never contemplates: he does.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity
“About the twelfth century the possibility of sharing contemplation by means of preaching and other forms of apostolic activity began to be considered. This point of view was exemplified in the mixed life (contemplative and active) of the mendicant orders and was expressed in the formula: contemplata aliis tradere ("to transmit to others the fruits of contemplation").”
— Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation (1971),p. 7
“The act of contemplation then creates the thing contemplated.”
— Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character, Chapter XII.
“Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 5, line 35.

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