Quotes About Contemplation

Andrew Roberts

Always alone and in the midst of men, I come back to my rooms to dream with myself, and to surrender myself to all the vivacity of my melancholy,' he wrote.

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.

I briefly contemplated how difficult it would be to safely remove my hand.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet.

Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, "Abba, as far as I can, I say my [daily prayers], I fast a little, I pray and meditate. I live in peace as far as I can. I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?" Then the old man stood up, stretched his arms towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, "If you want, you can be all flame."18

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

It's as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence

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Quanto alla fretta, di solito l'impressione dell'inesorabile incalzare del tempo è un segnale d'allarme che impone di rallentare il ritmo e agire lentamente e con l'adeguata riflessione.

Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that—

Vocês contemplam, mas não têm olhos; ouvem, mas os vossos ouvidos estão surdos. Porque em vocês não há amor divino, porque são como barris vazios…

Sometimes I get up before sunrise to watch the way the dark thins out and objects slowly reveal themselves, the trees, the rest of the landscape. You can hear the river below and roosters in the village. The light of dawn, cold and blue, gradually fills the world, and it's the same in every place I've been.

Czarnow?osy, chudy i smag?y, wygl?da? na Cygana albo na kogo?, kto znalaz? si? tutaj przypadkiem. On zawsze wygl?da? tak, jakby si? przysiad?, bo akurat by?o wolne miejsce. My?la?, kpi?, nudzi? si? na w?asny rachunek.

?e jutro te? jest dzie?, to mo?e brzmie? pocieszaj?co dla g?upków. Dla zwolenników zdrowej ?ywno?ci, ale nie dla ludzi powa?nych. Dla tych, co pal?, pij? i czuwaj? po nocach. Czuwaj? wbrew ogólnemu przekonaniu, ?e nie ma na co czeka?. Bo mo?e i nie ma. Ale nie jest to powód, by nie czuwa?…

Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.

With events that have passed there is no problem, provided we don't attempt to be wiser that they are, provided we can't use them to further own own ends. If we let them be, the turn into a marvelous solution, a magical acid that dissolves time and space, eats calendars and atlases, and turns the coordinates of action into sweet nothingness. What is the meaning of the riddle? What is the use to anyone of chronology, sister of death?

Every decision you ever made — the best ones and the worst ones — were, at their base, merely a product of your thinking at that time.

Every time I go from Manhattan to either Boston or DC, I endlessly ruminate about whether to take the train or the shuttle.

Although Yamashita and Amemiya grow and prepare their own food—both of which definitely take a lot of time—they seem to be suffused in timelessness, in an endless present.

I was a thirty-seven-year-old man with a lot on his mind but not too much in it.

Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.