Quotes About Contemplation

I do what I always do. I go outside to get some air. Seems like I'm always trying to get some air.

I nod to say good-bye, and I almost believe she's nodding back at me. But she's not. It's me nodding. Me nodding to her, and to myself. When I stand, I see the shape of my legs reflected in the stone. I step backward. Backward. Backward until I can't see my image there anymore. Then I turn and walk away.

did an exercise at the end of every day, if I could keep awake long enough, when I tried to imagine the inner significance of everyone who had spoken to me that day. Before

O senhor sabe o que o silêncio é? É a gente mesmo, demais.

Sei que estou falando demais, dos lados. Resvalo. Assim é que a velhice faz.

Do que acontecido, me senti muito livre. Trotei, adiante. Eu ia, à meia-rédea, não me instava, não pensava.

Toda hora eu estou em julgamento.

Vossignoria sa cosa è il silenzio? Siamo noi stessi, in eccesso.

Vim. Diadorim nada não me disse. A poeira das estradas pegava pesada de orvalho.

Ao que, digo ao senhor, pergunto! em sua vida é assim? Na minha, agora é que vejo, as coisas importantes, todas, em caso curto de acaso foi que se conseguiram ? pelo pulo fino de sem ver se dar ? a sorte momenteira, por cabelo por um fio, um clim de clina de cavalo. Ah, e se não fosse, cada acaso, não tivesse sido, qual é então que teria sido o meu destino seguinte? Coisa vã, que não conforma respostas. As vezes essa ideia me põe susto.

De que tivesse neste mundo um tal nhô Constâncio Alves, o que era que eu ponderava com isso?

When you are alone, you find out who you are capable of being.

October is a time to take stock of our deepest held beliefs.

October is a month of introspection and retrospection, of taking stock.

Two or three times today, take a deep breath and enter the moment with mindful awareness.

To rest and recreate will have far-reaching effects on your life. Spend a few minutes in meditation and contemplate the wisdom of the Sabbath and whether it feels right to add a Sabbath to your week.

Keep a journal of thoughts and ideas.

Prayer in Benedictine spirituality is not an interruption of our busy lives nor is it a higher act. Prayer is the filter through which we learn, if we listen hard enough, to see our world aright and anew and without which we live life with souls that are deaf and dumb and blind.

Real contemplation, in other words, is not for its own sake. It doesn't take us out of reality. On the contrary, it puts us in touch with the world around us by giving us the distance we need to see where we are more clearly. To contemplate the gospel and not respond to the wounded in our own world cannot be contemplation at all. That is prayer used as an excuse for not being Christian. That is spiritual dissipation.

These questions do not call for the discovery of data; they call for the contemplation of possibility.

Statio—stopping to collect our hearts and minds before we begin something new—is the sign that we know we are about to do the will of God for the world. We know that we must not go at it when we are scattered of heart.

They sat so still that each of them might have been alone.

she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.

Except for those people over there with the wagonette we might be the only living creatures in the whole world,' said Edith, airily dismissing the entire animal kingdom at one stroke.