Quotes About Contemplation

She asked what I had learned in Sunday school and I always said, "Jesus wept." I didn't want to go into my feelings about a God who put a father to a test to see if he'd kill his own son like a lamb to roast, and then sent his only child to be nailed onto a cross and fed vinegar

Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive – she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago she had contemplated falling in love with Ken for lack of anything better to do.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

she lacks the nonchalance for conducting deep discussions;

One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?

The most important things, I told them, were observation and consciousness. Keep your eyes open, see clearly, think about what you see, ask yourself what it means.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Those distractions combine with a desire to avoid considering our own mortality, so that days, weeks, months, or even years can easily pass where no serious consideration is given to the eternal questions of human existence.

Habían pasado veinticuatro horas y seguía dispersa y absorta jugando con el caos; como si su destino fuera un rompecabezas.

A large color plate of a cat statue caught my eye and I gazed at it for several moments, my mind empty of thought. Without an ego, one simply looks. The image of the cat, entirely whole and entirely static, is a signal to the mind to come to rest. There is no immediate sense of beauty, only the act of seeing.

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.

I need time now to consider the future that is a past within my mind.

Now, watch these matters closely for I wish to see this room later through your wisdom.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

Özgürlük bir yaln?zl?k halidir.

The thought hung like a sine wave in Leto's mind:

What mattered a single moon in such a universe?

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.

It is the river, Leto thought. If I turn, I will see the thing that I have done.

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.

Les diría que escribieran una nota de despedida de ciento cincuenta palabras, como si fueran a suicidarse. Sería un buen modo de animarles a pensar en la vida en sí, pues Samuel Johnson dijo que pensar que nos van a ahorcar a la mañana siguiente centra la mente de una manera maravillosa.

I love the rain. It helps me think.