Quotes About Contemplation

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.

Wondering is a positive madness.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.