Quotes About Contemplation

A Bible - should we read one or write one - this is the question!

A person who has no mind doesn't mind how the world is shaping up all around and remains confined all the time within oneself only.

A person's THOUGHT that does not make most people think that the life is miserable, has not been thought really well.

A wicked feels proud to see the crowd around oneself often, but a wise feels it is nice to spend most time usually in the solitude.

A wicked person likes to see often the crowd of people around oneself whereas a wise man usually shies away from the loud places and normally loves solitude.

Better to keep quiet than to speak a thought that has got no wisdom light.

Big picture thinking is nothing but seeing the real movie called Life

Most people need introspection than inspiration for the right motivation towards the creation of a true path of peace & progress

The prayer to God is only one that which can be silently heard in own heart.

The wise man sees the wicked people and instantly says whatever comes to his mind the very first and that becomes the words of wisdom.

Possessed with a thousand thoughts of past joys

Mama paused. "Sometimes, your soul looks back and wonders how you got over.

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

Well…Shit." They were, as last words go, not terribly inspired. But

Those who do contemplative retreats in hermitages are far from doing nothing, since they are constantly engaged in training their minds, but there is no 'noise,' no 'waste' to eliminate, no stress to cure, no chaos to reorganize. This means that there is less to repair during sleep and the sleep quality of meditators is deeper.

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Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

Open your mind before your mouth

How can I study from below, that which is above?

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

The reason why men enjoy seeing a likeness is, that in contemplating it they find themselves learning or inferring, and saying perhaps, "Ah, that is he." For if you happen not to have seen the original, the pleasure will be due not to the imitation as such, but to the execution, the coloring, or some such other cause.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.