Quotes About Contemplation

it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words.... I did so. "Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!" The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

Era d'altronde uno di quegli uomini che amano assistere alla propria vita, ritenendo impropria qualsiasi ambizione a viverla. Si sarà notato che essi osservano il loro destino nel modo in cui, i più, sono soliti osservare una giornata di pioggia.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.' He said. 'Nothing more, never.

Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.

Kartais svarstau, ko mes vis laukiame. Tyla. - Kad b?t? per v?lu, madam.

In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.

Occasionally, on windy days Hervé Joncour would go down to the lake and spend hours in contemplation of it because he seemed to descry, sketched out on the water, the inexplicable sight of his life as it had been, in all its lightness.

When loneliness mastered him he would go up to the cemetery...The rest of his time was taken up with a liturgy of habits that succeeded in warding off sadness.

Voglio dire che prima o poi smetterà di rompermi i coglioni ovunque io vada, e io proverò lo stesso sollievo che si prova quando in una stanza si spegne il motore del frigorifero, ma anche lo stesso sgomento inevitabile, e la sensazione, che lei certo conoscerà, di non essere sicuri di sapere cosa farsene di quell'improvviso silenzio, e forse di non esserne in fondo all'altezza. Le sembra di aver capito?

Ogni tanto, nelle giornate di vento, scendeva fino al lago e passava ore a guardarlo, giacché, disegnato sull'acqua, gli pareva di vedere l'inspiegabile spettacolo, lieve, che era stata la sua vita.

Elle pleuvait, sa vie, devant ses yeux, spectacle tranquille.

Bio je, zapravo, jedan od onih ljudi što vole prisustvovati vlastitom životu, drže?i nedoli?nom svaku težnju da ga prožive. Uo?ljivo je kako takvi ljudi vlastitu sudbinu posmatraju na na?in na koji ve?ina posmatra kišni dan.

He was, besides, one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate

His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle

Maybe it's that life, at times, gets to you in a way that there's really nothing more to say.

Zijn leven regende voor zijn ogen omlaag, een rustig schouwspel

C'était au reste un de ces hommes qui aiment assister à leur propre vie, considérant comme déplacée toute ambition de la vivre. On aura remarqué que ceux-là contemplent leur destin à la façon dont la plupart des autres contemplent une journée de pluie.

Contemplan su destino de la misma forma que la mayoría acostumbra contemplar un día de lluvia

Sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.

Llovía su vida, frente a sus ojos, espectáculo quieto.

I was just... thinking. That must have been quite an experience for you.

Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

Professor Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld often reflected on how fortunate he was to be exactly who he was, and nobody else. When one paused to think who one might have been had the accident of birth not happened precisely as it did, then, well, one could be quite frankly appalled.

Most problems could be diminished by the drinking of tea and the thinking through of things that could be done while tea was being drunk. And even if that did not solve problems, at least it could put them off for a little while, which we sometimes needed to do, we really did.