Quotes About Contemplation

In being slower, time is more capacious. The event is only in the moment. By speeding through life with technology, you reduce what any given moment can hold. By slowing down, you expand it.

Wie oft wird er den Himmel falten müssen, damit er in seine Tasche passt?

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

The intellectual cannot operate at room temperature.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement, not only with others but also with ourselves.

Inside every pause lived a contemplation

People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and thoughtful people are the ones more regularly afflicted by mania is beyond question.

readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...

Si ce que tu dis n'est pas plus beau que le silence, alors tais-toi

Urmându-Å£i aÅŸadar sfatul, m-am str?duit s?-l pun în aplicare. Contemplând lumina, culorile, copacii, p?s?rile, animalele. SimÅ£eam cum aerul îmi p?trunde în n?ri f?cându-m? s? respir. Vocile de pe culoar veneau spre mine ca din bolta unei catedrale. Iar eu eram viu. Frem?tam de o bucurie necuprins? ÅŸi pur?. Aceea de a exista. O bucurie care m? fermeca.

Il faut du bruit pour entendre le silence .

Lisait-il vraiment? Son oeil plissait, egare, sur les mots couches; il ne les reveillait pas, il les laissait dormir dans le troupeau du paragraphe. Il etait plus un gardien de livres qu'un lecteur.

Les muettes étoiles ont toujours rendu les hommes bavards.

Czy w twoim kraju jest pustynia? - Nie. (...) - Wi?c jak sobie radzisz? Zrozumia?em jego pytanie. Znaczy?o: jak sobie radzisz, gdy chcesz porozmy?la?? (...) W odpowiedzi pokaza?em mu niebo... Zrozumia? i u?miechn?? si?, uspokojony: mia?em swoj? cz??? pustyni!

Tu penses trop et pas assez parce que tu ne penses pas par toi-même.

vautré sur une chaise de métal, j'espionnai le jeu des garçonnets, lesquels se lançaient leurs voiliers miniatures d'un bord à l'autre du bassin circulaire, puis, malgré moi, j'observai le vent dans la ramée, l'oscillation des arbustes, j'envoyai deux ou trois cailloux pour dessiner des ronds sur l'eau et je me penchais vers les fleurs lorsque la paix m'inonda… J'avais compris.

PoÈ›i suferi de singur?tate chiar fiind în mijlocul alor t?i? Asta-i soarta omului care gândeÈ™te cu capul lui.

Je?eli to, co mówisz, nie jest piÄ™kniejsze od ciszy, lepiej milcz.

Buddhist concept of mindfulness means precisely a way of being in which one is fully concentrated on everything one is doing at any given moment, whether it is planting a seed or cleaning a room or eating. Or as a Zen master has said: "When I sleep I sleep, when I eat I eat …" 10.

went to the window off the porch, and I saw

You compose a question and then you just start walking. Concentrate on each step. Don't think too far ahead and don't think about where you have been. But consider closely how one step leads to another. Contemplate connections and links. Immerse yourself in the pattern.

I watch and try not to think. Everything is a film: a fly on the windshield trying to get in, a delivery truck parked in front of whatever to deliver something I will never savor, a plane carrying flesh messages across the sky. The movie is wonderful to watch when I'm not in it.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.