Quotes About Contemplation

Circles of this sort, called mandalas, are widely used for meditation in the Buddhist tradition. Often they are cornered by four demons who evidently, like the Occidental lion, bull, angel and eagle, represent the extremes to be avoided.

To think that I am not going to think of you anymore is still thinking of you. Let me then try not to think that I am not going to think of you.

When you thought about it, silence was rarely silent. Silence was the small noises you heard when the larger noises disappeared.

Perhaps you will want time to digest what we've discussed," she

Quirk was still staring out the window. "I'm trying to keep hold of this thing," he said. "The guy isn't going to stop and

I liked the rain. It was interesting to look at, and I enjoyed the feeling of shelter on a rainy day. When

off with Utley." We were all quiet then, Susan and I

One must have a mind of winter, I thought, to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. - from The Snow Man, by Wallace Stevens

The life of a painter demands solitude

Our business was done at the river's brink;

Like a god going through his world, there stands One mountain for a moment in the dusk.

I don't laugh very much, he said, realizing the truth of the statement as he made it, this sudden bit of knowledge disturbing him.

I leaned against the fence and crossed my arms and stared at her. After a while she looked over and said, "Why are you staring at me?" "Because I am the Lord High Keeper of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong, and I am trying to figure out what to do." She blinked at me. "Jiminy Cricket," I said. "He was also Counselor in Moments of Temptation, and Guide Along the Straight and Narrow Path. You need that.

She gave me the serious goldfish face, then went back to staring at her dress.

Meryl Lawrence was in her mid-forties, with sandy hair and the trim, sturdy build of a woman who took care of herself. She wet her lips as she stared at the phone, thinking, and finally glanced up. "What

Joe Pike thought about that for a long time. Centuries. Then he said, "Someone had to bring her back.

Jonathan Green nodded again, then stared at the far wall for what seemed like several minutes. No one moved, and no one spoke. All of the other attorneys stared at Jonathan as if he might suddenly utter some dictum and they would have to act on it. Apprehensive.

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

Permanecer en silencio es algo más que no hablar".

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, A luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

I am one who has been acquainted with the night

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

I have been one acquainted with the night.