Quotes About Contemplation

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world - what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

One of the things that interests me year-round—as a Christian, as a theologian, as a human being—is that star,

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. —Sir Thomas Browne

And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.

Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.

I was focusing on the now. But that didn't mean I couldn't still wonder about what came after.

haven't you ever thought about it?' Nick asked. 'What you want to leave behind, and what you don't?' 'Not really.

Father Martin put it, "Stability give us the time and the structure to go deep into who we are as sons of God.

Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women in post-Christian America. The

The monk holds that meaning exists objectively, within the natural world created by God, and is there to be discovered by the person who has detached themselves from their own passions and who seeks to see as God sees.

Both contemplation and action are necessary to human flourishing. The

Santo Tomás de Aquino lo explicaba con este ejemplo: «saber que alguien viene no es saber que Pedro viene aunque sea Pedro el que viene». A través de la oración y la contemplación podemos, a partir de esta intuición, identificar a quien ahora solo vislumbramos. Por ejemplo, el anhelo de sentido y verdad que todos compartimos es, según David Bentley Hart, «simplemente una manifestación de la estructura metafísica de la realidad».

The genius of Saint Benedict is to find the presence of God in everyday life.

resolved into them.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.