Quotes About Contemplation

She writes: "I see nothing and I see all; certitude is obtained in the darkness;"1166 that is, I see nothing determinate, but I see all the divine perfections united, fused in an ineffable manner in the eminence of the Deity.

Reginald Hill

Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-junctions, lights; and of course, bus-stops. The world you passed through was observable. And real. So was the world inside your head. Buses were good places to worry on.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

To live well, one must live unseen.

Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone, so even now we can learn from experience that a similar meditation, although incomparably less perfect, allows us to enjoy the greatest happiness we are capable of feeling in this life.

to live well you must live unseen

that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.

We should totally focus the vision of natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously.

During the nine subsequent years, I did nothing but roam from one place to another, desirous of being a spectator rather than an actor in the plays exhibited on the theater of the world.

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

Si l'homme parfois ne fermait pas souverainement les yeux, il finirait par ne plus voir ce qui vaut d'être regardé.

Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught, And spent my little life without a thought, And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim, Should think of me, who never thought of him.

Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?

As events beyond my control unfold. I go within to find peace."

The world is everything that is the case. And in the second place because. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. —THOMAS HARDY

Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage that they force us to think. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

FEBRUARY 5 FOR DISCOVERING ONE'S true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help. Then sometimes when one is very much involved in hatred or attachment, if there is time or possibility during that very moment, just try to look inward and ask: 'What is attachment? What is the nature of anger?