Quotes About Contemplation

A self check in is a way to know and manage awareness, attention and Intention.

Cate stared intently at the land, as if trying to wring some knowledge from it, as if she were seeing it for the first time, although in fact it couldn't have been more familiar to her, the type of landscape against which she still judge all others.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Get close to grass and you'll see a star.

God always remains silent.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

The oldster looked at his Crowner, his brows lifted high over his pale eyes, adding wrinkles to an already wrinkled brow.

To the Reader" As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie among lianas: eyes of obsidian are watching the generations of leaves, and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.

Looking, Walking, Being I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, Sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes Dig and burrow in the world. They touch Fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, Not only Visible present, solid and shadow That looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms Of echo and interruption? That's A way of breathing, breathing to sustain Looking, Walking and looking, Through the world, In it.

This great unknowing is part of their holiness.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

and nothing was burning, nothing but I

She didn't read to show off at book groups or for discussion. She never made a show of her erudition. She just liked to be lost.

Mindfulness Makes the Mystery Meaningful

You don't have to go on a quest to "find" silence-it's a matter of uncovering it right where you are. Think about it: if all external and internal sounds were eliminated, only silence would remain. The question is, how much silence can you bear? How deep are you willing to go below surface living to reconnect with who you truly are?

You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back. . . . Truly, I prepare you for solitude. —C.G. Jung , The Red Book

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

One of the interesting dichotomies of life is that you have to turn away from the world, in order to understand it better.

The only way you may be able to understand the world, is by turning away from her.....and that's a perplexing paradox!