The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient – everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation. ~Michael Finkel Mantra: When I choose to clear distractions, I am able to spend time in contemplation.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world. ~Sri Chinmoy Mantra: When I choose to align my inner and outer worlds, I thrive and experience peace.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination. ~Varg Vikernes Mantra: When I choose to align with music, I expand my own vibrations.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. ~Auguste Rodin Mantra: When I choose to contemplate nature, I see miracles around me.

That pleasure, which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~Edgar Allan Poe Mantra: When I choose to contemplate the beautiful around me, I am immersed in awe and wonder.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller Mantra: When I choose to give full attention to something, I experience deep awe and reverence.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ Gerry Spence Mantra: When I choose to be touched by wonder, I see limitless possibilities.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel Mantra: When I choose to see…