Quotes About Contemplation

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

I kept motionless and tried to think like a tree.

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

I'm sure I'm not the only wife who feels that—the small relief at his absence. I love him very much, I do; but the house to yourself … No need for conversation or company or the press of his presence

PEACE Patiently Exploring All Consequences Equally!!

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

Your mind is a mirror and you see yourself in it again and again.

When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one tried to grasp one of them and turn it to one's own purpose and pierce through the murk, it became blunt and useless as a piece of cardboard.

Kitty stared at the sky smashing against the mountains.

that most of us don't go through with it, but we have at least walked our minds on this forbidden pasture and let them graze there?

Too much of oneself can be projected into the silence

Our task is not to solve enigmas, but to be aware of them, to bow our heads before them and also to prepare the eyes for never-ending delight and wonder.

It was past dark when I reached the city and I'd mostly shoved my ghosts back into their graves. I let the gray mare pick her own pace and browse in the grain fields along the way.

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Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

Don't let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.

Spend time pondering not what you see," Merlin advised Arthur, "but why you see it.

so. How to "Resist Not Evil" Meditation—Sit every day and find the silence inside yourself. In this silence, there is peace without anger. There is no evil, no attachment to revenge or righteous indignation. With practice, you learn to identify yourself with this place. It becomes natural to master anger, an energy like any other. When this happens, evil begins to release you from its hold. Contemplation—The mind plays a large

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

We are actively pursuing the beneficial genetic changes that occur in meditation and other contemplative practices. Long portrayed as spiritual, these are actually mind-body techniques that speak to every cell and even deeper, to every gene.

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

Published findings indicate that meditation and various contemplative practices may improve immune response by stimulating the vagus nerve in such a way that inflammation is reduced.

Quiero conocer los pensamientos de Dios … el resto sólo son detalles. — Albert Einstein