Quotes About Contemplation

debrucei-me, curioso, para mim

o pai de manta nos joelhos à cata de um - Sabes? entre meia dúzia de palavras que tinha, não meia dúzia, duas ou três, não duas ou três, nenhuma, bolhinhas de cuspo que rebentavam mudas (...)

O que eu gostava de poder encher os livros de silêncio, e tender cada vez mais de silêncio, e que as palavras estivessem carregadas de silêncio de maneira a que o leitor as pudesse encher como quisesse.

Que gente! Que coisas! Que opiniões! Que vida! Sinto entre mim e o meu país a distância abismosa deste sentimento: o desprezo. (...) O silêncio é a única resposta possível.

Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.

The great gift of the southern lands to our civilisation is the simple right to sit at an outside cafe table and look at things.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence.

It is a sobering thought that the finest act of love you can perform is not an act of service but an act of contemplation, of seeing.

Không có góc nhìn cuá»™c s?ng nào t?t hÆ¡n là nhìn nó t? cái ch?t.

Atrévete a fijarte, sin temor ni fórmula alguna, en todo cuanto te rodea, y no tardarás en ver.

Most priests and religious equate prayer with thinking. That is their downfall.

ibas a ser ejecutado dentro de una semana, tu mente se centraría exclusivamente en ello, y no podrías pensar en otra cosa.

Somebody said about most retreats that we begin them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and we end as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.)

Charles de Foucauld

on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.

Abrid los ojos y observad todo lo que podáis antes de cerrarlos para siempre»

Abrid los ojos —concluye el hombre— y observad todo lo que podáis antes de cerrarlos para siempre».

He looks across to the fires. He thinks: The universe is full of fuel.

His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. This is an act of memory.

Jutta, he thinks, I finally listened.

I thought they might take a break," he says. Marie-Laure is thinking of her father. "Maybe," she says, "it is even more important now?

De entre todas las cosas que he visto en la vida, creo que el mar es mi favorita. A veces me descubro mirándolo y me olvido completamente de mis obligaciones. Es lo bastante grande como para contener en su interior todas las cosas que un hombre puede sentir a lo largo de toda una vida.