Quotes About Contemplation

Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being somebody else

Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.

All the same he got a pinch of misery, thinking, just as he had sometimes in Kentucky when he'd be out in the woods, feeling good that he was alone, with everything to himself, and then he would spy someone and it would all be spoiled, as if the country wasn't his any more, or the woods or the quiet.

She'd also begun to feel like this might not be the best place for her after all. "I

Loveliest of Trees Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

my afternoons are the least intellectual part of my life

Contemplation is not compatible with the complications and burdens of an excessively comfortable life.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

You never come closer to owning the whole world than when you wake up before everyone else. There

it was as if she'd shut out the outside world. No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.

The members of the congregation looked as though they'd just dropped in for a rest on the way to the grave.

To think is to say no.

Later, with time, we no longer need a shawl over our eyes or grass in our ears. The one playing the blind man simply turns his gaze inward, and the deaf one shuts his ears to all sounds

Well, she certainly had a point there. It wasn't easy remembering you were an august personage.

I suppose everyone is a daydreamer, but I was better at it than most.

Il vaut mieux chanter en pensant à Dieu que réciter le Coran en pensant à autre chose.

No,' I said, 'nothing like that. Just a lot of bits and pieces to sort out, bits of life.

Chi nata Pho pabohsa awpa heta ahy hmata âhnaw awpa châvei. Nâma nata keima tawhta tawhta pabohsana rai hria eimâ thao awpa a châ.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

The minutes we spend watching the waves don't count against our life spans