Quotes About Contemplation

There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.

Thoughts, books, ideas, words – if anything, they make you more alone, because they destroy whatever instinctive loyalties you may once have possessed.

When you're planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.

He remembered other times and other campfires, when he had not been alone.

So....wait and see.' 'Eleven times out of twelve, that's the best course...but if I said it that way, no one would reason me a deep thinker.

That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of a life now.

I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was "outside the box," and do it repeatedly. When we do that, we are on our way to a greater level of personal power.

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was "outside the box," and do it repeatedly. When we do that, we are on our way to a greater level of personal power. True empowerment

Then, for a while, it was quite still in the old foundry, where the man and the devil lay side by side--although which was which would perhaps have been a matter for theological debate.

Harper thought of Hillary Clinton. She

A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.

Eu ponho uma bola de gude na boca para me lembrar de ficar calado e escutar de vez em quando.

Contemplating suicide-- or a graduate degree

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

Inside his head, a brain cell used a stepladder to find a high-shelved thought.

A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Jung

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

Very few things are wise, Lisbeth Debogande. Least frequently those things that are loudly pronounced to be so. The true question is whether they are necessary

You've taught me a great deal about stillness.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, til they take root in our personal experience.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Slowness, he explained, nurtures attention, and speed shatters it.