Quotes About Contemplation

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

Para atender mejor el oficio del verso/arrodíllate

and he suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead into an empty space till slowly we returned into view. I can make small talk, he said slowly, I can do that but out of the corner of my eye I can see the dark approaching.

Ruhun Tutkunlar?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Vivir sin filosofar es, propiamente, tener los ojos cerrados, sin tratar de abrirlos jamás" (René Descartes)

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (to live well is to live concealed)

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Just sit in one place and pay attention to all that I throw light on. The more attention you pay, the more you will want to know.

Overhearing The Gita I

Know the thought behind action

Arjuna, those who cleanse themselves with contemplation and meditation discover me, embrace me, find shelter in me and are liberated from yearning, fear and anger.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 10 (paraphrased).

Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the experience, however intense, would be of value many years later. But there it has remained, tucked away in hidden bits of my mind and now it comes, shouldering aside even the most passionate love affairs.

Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do.

The contemplative tradition has most deeply influenced my spiritual growth and my identity. My Christian action flows from my life of prayer." Aaron McCarroll Gallegos agrees: "An authentic prayer life has become one of the most important Christian practices for me…. Without a vital inner spiritual life, I believe it is almost certain that one will lose their way.

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I had the feeling if I hadn't been there

Sometimes there's so much to say that you don't know where to begin.

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

What better place to kill time than a library?