Quotes About Contemplation

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Pray to God one minute, listen to Him for one hour.

When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves

An imaginative person can be spiritual but can't be religious.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

None of us, I think, in the mid-'70s … would have thought we'd be devoting so much mental space now to confront religion. We thought that matter had long been closed. — Ian McEwan

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.