Quotes About Contemplation

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Loneliness comes with life.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.