Quotes About Contemplation

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

The consciousness of life is higher than life.