David A. Cooper famous quotes

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.
-- David A. Cooper

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A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.
-- David A. Cooper

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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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.