Quotes About Contemplation

You notice and absorb so much.

the evening is the best part of the day

Then she continued to walk away.

Ochii lui se incrucisara cu ai mei, si am privit in ei, si am simtit ... nu stiu ce am simtit. Ceva staniu , greu de denumit , despre care nici nu-mi puteam da seama daca era ceva bun sau ceva rau, doar il simteam in maruntaie, tresaltand si rasucindu-se , pana cand mi-am intors capul si m-am uitat spre padure.

I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don't really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life.

Philip knelt before the altar and stayed there a moment, conscious that righteous indignation was not the appropriate state of mind for a worshiper. When he had cooled down a little he rose and passed on.

A l'évidence, cette décision nécessitait une réflexion longue et attentive. Il la prit sur-le-champ. Il rentrerait en Angleterre.

I'm only thirty-seven, he thought; is this when old age begins?

We cannot hope to understand the world—all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation.

looked down into the black water and hesitated

solo porque alguien hiciera una pregunta no significaba que hubiera que responder.

every day she would probably have

He set out to walk. The

Durante todo el viaje había pensado en aquel lugar. En

jaw. He examined his morning beard, pulling the loose skin this way

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I've thought of everything, know what I mean?

I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn't want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn't want the questions.

Mi lenne itten, ha mindenki akkor állna neki a fogát sikálni, amikor eszébe jut?

And so I trust that, in addition to reading about my suggestions and priorities, each of you will contemplate your own ideas and possibilities, and will bring them forward on any of the forums that will emerge to discuss this most significant of issues facing the modern and postmodern world, all around a common theme: "Just how inclusive do you want to be?

Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.