Quotes About Contemplation

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

I'm not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade of grass.

I didn't go to parties or anything like that.

I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.

I don't go out partying.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Divinity in Its Transcendence, the Absolute before any Self-manifestation, cannot be contemplated, for contemplation implies a subject and an object, and the Absolute is beyond all duality, all "place" and all knowing. It is the Mystery, the utterly inscrutable secret in the deepest part of Being, veiled behind all the inmost veils, yet somehow luring and teasing the lover. And the lover waits outside the door, ready to surrender his life at a sign.

My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Men frequently get lost in their thoughts and go to far-off places in their minds without even realizing the journey has started or considering the consequences.

Christianity is not brain surgery or rocket science, it is not quantum mechanics or nuclear physics; it is both infinitely easier and more difficult than all of these. The fragile flame of faith is fanned into life so simply: all we need do is sit still for a few moments, embrace the silence that engulfs us, and invite that flame to burn bright within us.

It is in stillness, in the silence, that the word of God is to be heard.