Quotes About Contemplation

Silence is autonomous. It is beyond us; our task is to coordinate our being with the greater Being of Silence.

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

His favoured objects of contemplation were economic facts, usually in statistical form. He used to say that his best ideas came to him from 'messing about with figures and seeing what they must mean'. Yet he was famously sceptical about econometrics – the use of statistical methods for forecasting purposes. He championed the cause of better statistics, not to provide material for the regression coefficient, but for the intuition of the economist to play on.

Mustn't all significant action be preceded by an incubation period?...the waiting period is not just a delay to be endured in order to reach the right moment. It is... the very creator of that moment.

Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh we seek to dominate the self ... In the tempestuous ocean of time and toil there are islands of stillness where man may enter a harbor and reclaim his dignity. The island is the seventh day, the Sabbath, a day of detachment from things, instruments and practical affairs as well as of attachment to the spirit.

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Robert Vaughan

make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.

His normal state was silence.

So long as "mind" survives, "religion" will also exist. But no religion will persist in the silence that results from looking within. It is the ego that comes up, in the form of saying, "my religion should be embraced by all.

To see the false as the false, you need to lay aside all the search-oriented teachings, and focus on (contemplate) the reality that your presence and the Absolute presence cannot be other than the same presence.

Talks With Ramana alone,

thoughts have their origin in this stillness.

This question goes way beyond my own little episodes of transcending overcaffeination and melancholy. It applies, in principle, to all negative feelings: fears, anxieties, loathing, self-loathing, and more. Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.

was beginning to observe the workings of what psychologists call the "default mode network." This is a network in the brain that, according to brain- scan studies, is active when we're doing nothing in particular—not talking to people, not focusing on our work or any other task, not playing a sport or reading a book or watching a movie. It is the network along which our mind wanders when it's wandering.

Será que a veces hay que callar, no por miedo ni menos por pudor, sino por compasión?

Yo percibía inmensos espacios de tiempo entre mi ayer taciturno y mi hoy caviloso.

Yo me dejo estar. Pienso, no, no pienso, mejor dicho, recibo de mi adentro una nostalgia dulce, un sufrimiento más dulce que una incertidumbre de amor. Y

Acaso la vida es otra cosa que la aceptación tranquila de la muerte que se viene callando?

Lento separóse de la gradinata el Hombre que vio a la Partera.

Leggere è come pensare, come pregare, come parlare con un amico, come esporre le tue idee, come ascoltare le idee degli altri, come ascoltare musica (si, si), come contemplare un paesaggio, come uscire a fare una passeggiata sulla spiaggia.

Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it.