Quotes About Contemplation

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

We look away until we have no choice. Then we examine them, remember them, and look away again, as if we're not meant to think too much about them, but to live. Just live and forget.

There was a long silence, during which Hall seemed lost in thought. "Who knows," he mused finally, almost to himself. "Maybe you've got some Neanderthal DNA in you somewhere.

He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF.

La teología, el «estudio de Dios», no es un mero pasatiempo intelectual. Tampoco

Now, to think is to be vulnerable.

There is much to be said for solitude.

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

And thinking is not like a book you can pick up when you want to, in your own time.

Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.

It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place...

28. How can you disbelieve in Allaah?

En cambio, la vida del contemplativo, del chamán, del santo, de las comunidades ecológicas y de algunos grupos indígenas reflejan la acción anti entrópica del atractor extraño del futuro ideal del hipercampo sobre sujetos capaces de vivir en estados de alta sintergia. Estos últimos reciben una influencia hipercámpica que los acerca a la unidad, trascendiendo la influencia repulsiva de la lattice.

All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot.

Some days, we just need to turn the quiet up.

Whatever my day may have lacked, yet I have tonight's pearl moon.

Its been a moment since Ive done some public speaking. I find now-a-days its best to keep quiet.

When all the options are wrong," he muttered to himself in the darkness, "what does it matter which one I choose?

It's as if, from the vantage point of a verandah bed, that great expanse of sky rolls in over us from the very edge of existence.

Drifting, drifting,/ what am I more than/ a single gull/ between sky and earth?

So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.

For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.