Quotes About Contemplation

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

There is no art without contemplation.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself. He must have been capable of intense feeling, and capable of profound contemplation. He who has contemplated has met with himself, is in a state to see into the realities beyond the surfaces of his subject. Nature reveals to him, and, seeing and feeling intensely, he paints, and whether he wills it or not each brush stroke is an exact record of such as he was at the exact moment the stroke was made.

When a daffodil I see,Hanging down his head t'wards me,Guess I may what I must be:First, I shall decline my head;Secondly, I shall be dead;Lastly, safely buryed.

Based on these journal entries, it would appear that the main

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. —Henry David Thoreau

The believer who is in a healthy state rejoices mainly in God Himself. He is happy because there is a God, and because God, in His person and character, is what He is. All the attributes of God become continual sources of joy to the thoughtful, contemplative believer. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in his sermon "The Joy of the Lord.

La meditación bíblica es el arte de hablarnos a nosotros mismos acerca de lo que Dios nos ha dicho; y lo que compartimos con otros es lo que se desborda.

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. – Mark 1:35

thanks for the thought." He walked to

the need to prioritize prayer, reverence for the Eucharist, the importance of solitude, and the call to immerse oneself in sacred Scripture.

Richard went to his room. Everything

on being somewhat antisocial- "You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time.

Carlisle wondered if it was still possible for him to live alongside civilization and yet be somewhat apart from it. Find a slice of quiet in the layers of noise, conduct a rain into the noise now and then for some work, take the gold and run like hell back to the quiet place....Flight was no good. You couldn't escape it, whatever 'it' was.

One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive, but a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself-but it is sometimes important to ask it"In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?

Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point. Learn who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, "My God, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body." Learn the sources of sorrow, joy, love, hate… . If you carefully investigate these matters you will find him in yourself.

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Dearest, I cannot loiter here in lather like a polar bear.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Robert Masello

For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

I had the time to reflect on my life.