Quotes About Contemplation

At such moments the soul retires within, to float upon the bosom of a deeper stream, and has communion with the dead, and sees the world's glory not diminished, but different in kind to what she has supposed.

Nothing ever happens to me," She reflected.

how thoughtful is thoughtful enough.... how much thinking does thinking over ...

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

But much more important than that, only one in "I don't know how many thousands" will take a large notepad, write the problem at the top of the page, and then deliberately turn on his thinking apparatus.

Bugün kimse sana dokunmasa mesela. Öyle dursan. Kimse "Neyin var?" diye sormasa. Çünkü insan?n hiçbir ?eyinin olmad??? günler de olur. Hiçbir ?ey günleri...

Oysa büyük yüz ölçümlü cümleler kurmak için okyanuslar geçecektim. Dar odalar?n oyuncak yaygaralar?ndan çok vakit kaybettim.

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.

The vastness of life around us helps eliminate self-centeredness. We are not doing the Vision Quest to make ourselves feel important or to be interesting to our friends but to realize the vastness of the universe and our oneness with it.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Meditation is listening to the Divine within.

Meditation is prayer from within the inner self and partakes not only of the inner physical person but of the soul aroused by the spirit from within. In prayer we speak to God, in meditation God speaks to us.

Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which manifests in nature, in the earth; in the birds, in the trees, in the grass, in the flowers, in the bees; that the life of each is a manifesting, is a song of glory to its Maker. And do thou likewise!

I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...

In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours On the shore of the turbid Spoon With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow, Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead, First his waving antennae, like straws of hay, And soon his body, colored like soap-stone, Gemmed with eyes of jet. And you wondered in a trance of thought What he knew, what he desired, and why he lived at all.

bag. Of course I had thought about it. I had thought of little else since signing the sales agreement. The closing wouldn't be for a few

what he thought of that.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.