Quotes About Contemplation

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.

In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the only time I can be alone. Slightly less than an hour each weekday when no one makes demands.

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

You may admire, even love those photographs, but you don't look at them and think What happened next? They have an immutable quality - that's their strength and power. But there's no question embedded in them. There's a question embedded in all your work, that sense of 'what happens next.

Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds.

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I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever.