Quotes About Contemplation

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

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A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action

if you want to talk to God, it's best to do it where you don't have to shout to have yourself heard.

A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

Tis good to be sad and say nothing!" - When these words of Shakespeare caught my attention, I confess I felt an echo, a delicious echo.

He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.

concluo que um dos ofícios do homem é fechar e apertar muito os olhos, e ver se continua pela noite velha o sonho truncado na noite moça.

I descended into physical and moral immobility, and my body became a plant, a stone, mud, nothing at all…

a solidão é oficina de ideias, e o espírito deixado a si mesmo, embora no meio da multidão, pode adquirir uma tal ou qual atividade.

Deixei-me estar a contemplar o cadáver, com alguma simpatia, confesso. Imaginei que ela saíra do mato, almoçada e feliz. A manhã era linda.

Em verdade, pouco apareço e menos falo. Distrações raras. O mais do tempo é gasto em hortar, jardinar e ler; como bem e não durmo mal.

I was drawn to the contemplation of human injustice, I inclined myself to attenuate it, to explain it, to classify it in parts, to understand it, not according to a rigid pattern, but according to the time and place.

O derradeiro homem, ao despedir-se do sol frio e gasto, há de ter um relógio na algibeira, para saber a hora exata em que morre

Quando fumo parece que aspiro a eternidade

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the what ifs come to me.

he seemed to be thinking at him.

But human beings need Deepening Places, too. And far too many never have any.

A journal is not a diary, where you record the weather and the engagements of the day. A journal is a notebook in which one can, hopefully, be ontological.

In this way I have sat in many rooms and walked in many gardens, and it has been as though I were a stick of furniture or a branch of a tree. I seem to have caused no sense of restraint or embarrassment. People have been able to talk freely in front of me, almost as freely as though I weren't there. I suppose some might think this a great compliment; it has given me a curious feeling of nonexistence. Now