Quotes About Contemplation

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Believe in the holy contour of life.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.