Quotes About Contemplation

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!

I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.

The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break.

I do not understand much of geometry and have no head for numbers. I have read Pythagoras, and I disagree with his assertion that man exists simply to observe the heavens. Observing the heavens leads one to contemplate the Creator of the heavens, and is it not more profitable to marvel at Adonai than His works?

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

Maxie knew he must have been very bad to deserve this. He wondered what it was he had done. And why he hadn't enjoyed it more at the time

So he just sits here staring into his beer.

Angus Stevenson

There must be some compensation for being an onlooker,' said Beatrice. 'The role is not always an enviable one.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

All these daydreams reminded him of the scenes which play through your mind in a fever. At the edge of the loch he stood for a moment

You don't think of that when you retire – that you don't have any space to yourself.

No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?'

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.