Quotes About Contemplation

life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Debio contemplar un cielo desconocido entre amedrentadoras horas, y debio estremecerse al darse cuenta de lo grotesca que es un rosa,Y de cuan cruda era la luz del sol sobre la hierba recien nacida

There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

What are you looking at? I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy. Nicole was frightened: Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.

epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing.

stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

Tahtsin ära minna ja sumedas õhtuhämaruses pargi poole jalutada, aga iga kord, kui ma lahkumist üritasin, mässiti mind lärmakasse, pöörasesse vaidlusse, mis kiskus mu nagu köitega toolile tagasi. Ent küllap vaatas samal ajal mõni juhuslik möödamineja pimenevalt tänavalt üles, uudistades inimsaladusi, mida varjas meie kollaste akende rida.

Demek ki o haziran gecesi sadece y?ld?zlar? izlemiyormu?.

hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.

The sky was low at night, full of the presence of a strange and watchful God.

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

as they walked home, and she would

He sat there for a moment and then said, "Well … I

Walter Lippmann was once asked his views on a particular topic, he is said to have replied, "I don't know what I think on that one. I haven't written about it yet.

mihotoke ni / shini mukeoreba / tsuki suzushi4 I've turned my back On Buddha How cool the moon!

kono aki wa / hiza ni ko no nai / tsukimi kana6 This autumn I'll be looking at the moon With no child on my knee.

tama ni ge ni / mokut? ya tada / michi no tsuki In spirit and in truth silent prayer . . . just the moon on the road

walked back to the

was recalling her

becoming slower and sweeter. She

It seems I've stopped speaking with my voice. Part of me fell asleep and just watches.

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.