Quotes About Contemplation

Soledad es no saber estar consigo mismo.»

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

Anyone who spotted a weed in a neglected field—a nice wild sorrel, say—and wanted to know whether it had come from a seed that had sprouted in the field, was blown in by the wind, or had been dropped there by a bird, would never, no matter how long they pondered it, reach a conclusion

vide quella gran macchina del duomo sola sul piano, come se, non di mezzo a una città, ma sorgesse in un deserto; e fermò su due piedi, dimenticando tutti i suoi guai, a contemplare anche da lontano quell'ottava maraviglia, di cui aveva tanto sentito parlare fin da bambino.

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

O ythgimla, pleh esoht ni deen.

Master Steve. "Hmm…

There is nothing wrong with requiring time to consider a question or an argument and you can gain it without appearing to be a dithering idiot. I might say, 'I've never considered that angle – can I give it some thought?' By praising the other person's ability to make me think, I increased his willingness to wait for an answer.

Still, as I watch the sun journey higher up on the horizon, I appreciate that, for only the second time in my entire life, I am alone, blessedly alone, with no one to tell me what to do or what to wear, no one to have to be polite to. Nothing. But I do not wish to be alone, not entirely. Now that I am finally alone, it feels...lonely.

There is a place in the world, I believe, for thought.

Being alone could sometimes feel terribly empty...

Nunca corras directo al centro. La manera adecuada de contemplar un mandalas es, en primer lugar, entrenando tus pensamientos sobre los budas que custodian las puertas de su periferia. Una vez franqueado ese umbral, poco a poco te adentra en el interior, dando vueltas y vueltas en círculos cada vez más estrechos hasta que llegas al centro.

Ask a series of questions, perhaps three to five, and after each, wait and sense the Universe's response to each question.

When we treat workaholics as heroes, we express a belief that labor rather than contemplation is the wellspring of great ideas and that the success of individuals and companies is a measure of their long hours.

The quiet around her seems to make the focus of her prettiness sharper, the air's stillness focuses her in the eye. As if talking might make it harder to see someone.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Diaries teach us that it is too much to be inside anybody's head. It is a horrible place. All that repetition; that endless analysis that doesn't analyze, just mulls a point over and over until it drops dead from banality.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the body of Christ. This is why the gifts themselves never became in the Orthodox East an object of special reverence, contemplation, and adoration, and likewise an object of special theological 'problematics': how, when, in what manner their change is accomplished.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.