Quotes About Contemplation

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

What is death all about? What is life all about?

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.

Live the questions now.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.