Quotes About Contemplation

Jakie? maj? prawo Do mnie te gwiazdy na górze ?e si? na mnie gapi??

Yaln?z, kendime baya?? bir k?zg?nd?m, Size daha fazla k?zamad???m için.

Preferiva nascondersi, dedicarsi alla lettura e ad altri studi e, una volta per tutte, non desiderava avere nulla a che fare con la gente.

Rimuginava continuamente quella preoccupazione da sola e poteva sviscerarla come voleva, ma non riusciva a trovare serenità con nessuna ipotesi.

quickly. Well, it was probably still there, he

When the storm rages and the shipwreck of the state threatens, we can do nothing more worthy than to sink the anchor of our peaceful studies into the ground of eternity.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Yes, there is happiness to be found in the mere contemplation of the deepest mysteries.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

And so we turn the page over To think of starting. This is all there is.

As I sit looking out of a window of the buildingI wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal.

just as children imagine a prayer / is merely silence...

Think spring. We do. Slow down.

He [Thomas Hobbes] had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.

ETERNAL Father of my soul, let my first thought today be of you, let my first impulse be to worship you, let my first word be your Name, let my first action be to kneel before you in prayer.

Almighty God, in this quiet hour I seek communion with thee. From the fret and fever of the day's business, from the world's discordant noises, from the praise and blame of men, from the confused thoughts and vain imaginations of my own heart, I would now turn aside and seek the quietness of thy presence. All day long have I toiled and striven; but now in the stillness of heart and the clear light of thine eternity, I would ponder the pattern my life is weaving.

There is a moment that comes in drunkenness, or on the far side of it, when, as is said to happen sometimes to the afflicted in the throes of a heart attack, I seem to separate from my body and float upward, and hang aloft, looking down on the spectacle of myself with disinterested attention.

These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.

I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

Any religion can give you answers to these questions. The fact that different religions give different answers—sometimes radically different answers—is proof of how hard they are. A good religion will help you explore the questions, contemplate possible answers, and find the ones that best fit your values, beliefs, and experience of the world. Good religion will give you tools for living when there are no answers.

The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.