Quotes About Contemplation

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.

Life in this world is an attempt to see God.

Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this is a matter between God and you, and only between you two.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

If you include quotes with your Instagram photos, you need to look at your life.

None of the rest of my life figures here.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

The only way out is in.