Quotes About Contemplation

bakmak bir seçme edimidir.

Silencio. Apago la linterna frontal. Oscuridad. En la oscuridad, el silencio se hace enciclopédico, condensa todo lo que ha ocurrido en el intervalo entre el entonces y el ahora.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.

It's very quiet but I'm aware that life is going on outside.

But authentic worship also has depth.

Take your eyes away for a moment, then let them return to the object of contemplation, and it is as if you were experiencing the effect for the first time.

Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while.

Sometimes you linger days upon a word, a single, uncontaminated drop of sound; for days it trembles, liquid to the mind, then falls: mere denotation dimming the undertow of language.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I maintain that all spirituality must be founded on moral life; but on the other hand, moral life must, so to speak, bathe itself in the ocean of contemplation. Without contemplation, the moral life would tend to degenerate into a dry and narrow humanism. Without the moral life, contemplation would be empty and degenerate into quietism.

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force

On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

On the other hand, it is well known that a person never comes to the clear knowledge of himself unless he has first contemplated the face of the Lord, and afterward descended to consider himself.

For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.

And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and

Consequently, we know the most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of his essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate him in his works whereby he renders himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates himself.

Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.

providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each

debate in his troubled thoughts, however. Despite this, they

He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind.

Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.

knew that his God—for each man has his own God—let him wander there sometimes, perhaps with the ghost of one of the many dogs that had kept him company through his life yapping at his heels, flushing the birds from the rushes and chasing them for the joy of it. My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.