Quotes About Contemplation

Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

Read less, study less, but think more

When you are alone you are all your own.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

It's better to look at the sky than live there

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is.

I did not have to believe. I only had to wonder.

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.