The Art of Contemplation Quotes

“The main hallmark of a lucid mind is its ability to transform any challenge into a creative opportunity.”
― Richard Rudd, The Art of Contemplation: A Gentle Path to Wholeness and Prosperity

“Merging conveys this same paradox. As we learn to merge, so we learn to trust everything that life delivers us. We give ourselves to it, allowing it to open us, even to shatter us if necessary. Sometimes our dreams are the wrong dreams. They may contain a grain of truth at their source, but sometimes our mind or ego also imposes its own agenda on our actions. It can be a shock to realise that sometimes we have been trying to force something to happen for years, only to realise that there is a much easier and more fulfilling path waiting for us somewhere else.”
― Richard Rudd, The Art of Contemplation: A Gentle Path to Wholeness and Prosperity

“The ultimate goal of contemplation is to bring both our inner and outer lives into balance. Then we can be inwardly fulfilled and outwardly content. Contemplation achieves this aim through teaching us how to cultivate a sense of presence. We will learn that the true purpose of life is not something we are here to do, rather it is something we are here to be. It is a quality or inner virtue that we bring to everything we do in life. To find our purpose is to find a nobility of spirit that pervades our entire life. When we have found this, what we do is of less importance because the doing may change. However, our being is the one thing that will never change. It alone makes us unshakeable, stable and radiant — we become the purpose of our life.”
― Richard Rudd, The Art of Contemplation: A Gentle Path to Wholeness and Prosperity