Quotes About Contemplation

Getting out of the way and listening is not something that comes easily, either in art or in prayer.

You just look at things nobody else can see,' Dennys added, 'and listen to things nobody else can hear, and think about them.' Meg defended her mother. 'It would be a good idea if more people knew how to think. After Mother thinks about something long enough, then she puts it into practice. Or someone else does.

didn't know whether or not she

She told them to read a poem every day and think about it, and whenever they went to a new place, to find out about its history and what had made it the place it had become.

read a poem every day and think about it

single night

Out by that ocean, you feel smaller, less important, somehow; it puts things into proportion

They are just thoughts, like anyone has thoughts, that's all.

The Slow movement can get us back in touch with what it means to carry out scholarly work. Instead of "I am producing ...," we might say to ourselves and others, "I am contemplating ...," or "I am conversing with ..." or even "I am in joyful pursuit of ...

Slow Professors advocate deliberation over acceleration. We need time to think, and so do our students. Time for reflection and open-ended inquiry is not a luxury but is crucial to what we do.

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

it is when thus relieved from the state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men and women, acquire the habit of thought and reflection, and of forming their own conclusions, independently of what they are taught and the authority of others.

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

A sure success is the grace to mediate on the scriptures.

Your life is a reflection of the quality of the questions you ask yourself and others.

Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions.

The SECRET to unravelling Life's MYSTERIES is thinking.

The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking".

It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.

The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.

For some moments in life there are no words.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.