Quotes About Contemplation

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness.

Bâtis ton film sur du blanc, sur le silence et l'immobilité.

be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.

The idle life I lead Is like a pleasant sleep, Wherein I rest and heed The dreams that by me sweep.

Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

While we sit bousin, at the nappy, And gettin fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

He became reflective and, somehow, withdrawn [zamknutym]. He gave up games but not books, and would go off in a corner and read assiduously."[127] Thus, young Djugashvili began to show the reticence and brooding aloofness from others that would characterize him in later years.

After years of being wrong, I now realize the possibility of the Christian belief or Genesis actually being true. Perhaps there was a worldwide flood.

the question… as always, the question is how to look at the sun without being blinded.

There are very few men—and they are the exceptions—who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.

Daily Law: Look at the sky and stars as if seeing them for the first time. Law of the Sublime, 1: Expand the Mind to Its Furthest Reaches—The Cosmic Sublime

Daily Law: Instead of merely reacting, step back and look at the wider context. Consider the ramifications of any action you take. Realize that is often better to do nothing, to not react, to let time go by and see what it reveals.

Let us rid death of its strangeness, come to know it, get used to it. Let us have nothing on our minds as often as death. At every moment let us picture it in our imagination in all its aspects. . . . It is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere. Premeditation of death is premeditation of freedom. . . . He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.

A veces puedes lograr más no haciendo nada.

Daily Law: Contemplate any feelings of uncertainty and even discomfort and hold fast to them. Amid such uncertainty your dormant sense of wonder will begin to stir, and things will start to appear novel and surprising as they did when you were very young.

Ich stellte mir seine Gedanken als einen schnellen, schmalen Wasserstrom vor, der sich durch die Fugen eines gefliesten Bodens bewegte - erst vorwärts, dann nach links und rechts ausgreifend, an einem Punkt kurz innehaltend, in eine andere Richtung weiter vorstoßend, sich immer weiter ausbreitend und verzweigend und dabei in seiner schimmernden, flüssigen Bewegung all die kleinen Möglichkeiten, Kosequenzen und Wahrscheinlichkeiten bedenkend.