Quotes About Contemplation

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

The essence of life is in remembering God.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.