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Quotes About Contemplation

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I think I'm learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world, but to turn away from it.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.
~ Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.
~ Frederick Lenz
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
~ Mary Oliver
the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
~ Edith Stein
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
~ Mary Oliver
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
~ Joan Miro
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
~ Rumi
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
~ Thomas Merton
Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
~ Anne Sexton
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
~ Meister Eckhart
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
~ Emil M. Cioran
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
~ Henri Bergson
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
~ Marcel Proust
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
~ Franz Kafka
Some things remain mysterious even if you think about them all the time.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I'd wake in the morning, my head fuzzy, sometimes with someone I knew but who was a stranger just leaving, and realize I was one day closer to the end of it all.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
May 6. No prott. But I have been having very odd thoughts.
~ Jeff Vandermeer