Quotes About Contemplation

and choice one may elect to trigger the benefits of contemplation and affirmation. Take a deep breath, relax, and repeat internally, "My body, mind, and spirit are always working to keep me supremely well.

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Contemplation is nothing more than one's whole person being seized by the reality of God's love.

Never miss an opportunity to do nothing

Roger Silverwood

Roger Silverwood

Roger Silverwood

Estos temas ya estaban sobre la mesa en la Antigüedad griega y romana. La conversión hacia la filosofía no supone cambiar nuestros ojos por otros, sino cambiar la dirección de la mirada. Por naturaleza tendríamos en nuestra mente la capacidad de acceder a la verdad. Si nos extraviamos es porque no estamos buscando del lado correcto, es porque estamos mirando hacia otro punto. No se trata de introducir la verdad en el alma sino de volver el alma hacia la verdad.

La verdad, para Platón, no está en las sensaciones, siempre cambiantes y muchas veces contrarias de un individuo a otro. La verdad reside, eterna e inmutable, en el mundo de las ideas, donde los filósofos pueden contemplar las formas verdaderas. La labor del filósofo consiste, por lo tanto, en transformar la sociedad conforme a este modelo ideal.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

next, showed up for work in the morning, washed the dishes, fed the dog, settled down in front of the TV to gaze at the lives of others, imaginary and real, as we plodded along toward old age. On

You have to take a little time to appreciate being alive and breathing instead of wondering what you have to do next all the time. You have to stop and do nothing for a little while every day.

Duh du jour.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry." —PAUL THEROUX, QUOTING TONY THE BEACHCOMBER, IN THE HAPPY ISLES OF OCEANIA    In this way, vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal—not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way.

Trzeba umie? milcze? o tym samym, a nie tylko o tym samym mówi?.

v?n chÆ°Æ¡ng là nÆ¡i nÆ°Æ¡ng tá»±a cu?i cùng trên cõi ??i cho nh?ng ai không bi?t náu mình vào Ä'âu n?a

Yaln?z oldu?um zamanlar ancak ikiye kadar sayabilirim.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.

The Rosary is not a road, but a place, and it has no goal but a depth. To linger in it has great compensations.

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But when man confronts the restlessness of his intellect and is caught in the whirl of modern life, he loses all relation to the Rosary.

Spiritual joy comes from pondering the mysteries of faith, not enthusing about them.