Quotes About Contemplation

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.

Every night is a time for drink.

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: 'Take your time.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.