Quotes About Contemplation

Then I walked down the street toward Angel's Flight, wondering what I would do that day. But there was nothing to do, and so I decided to walk around the town.

And sometimes such great quiet joy came to me that I would turn out my lights and cry, and a strange desire to die would come to me.

Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him.

The following day, he would find a bruise and wonder how it got there. When

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Welcome folded arms, fixed eyes, a sigh that piercing mortifies; A look that's fastened to the ground, a tongue chained up without a sound.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Silence is always with us. But we do not choose silence, silence chooses us. If you are called to be silent on your journey, recognize the invitation as a great gift. It is a gift to be shared with others. Your relationship to silence is one thing that will define the uniqueness of your journey.

You didn't throw rocks at me! Yeah, but I thought about it.

some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...

at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...

when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...

don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...

Jonathan nodded and joined him in watching the lane stripes on the Beltway zoom past. They

Some days load themselves with questions whose answers have died, and maybe never mattered hugely

As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things—sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in mountains.…

Angel of the backward look.

From this", says Schrödinger, "I learned many things, but not religion." His favourite question was, "Sir, do you really believe that?

But somewhere deep inside him a glass tube clanked.

In 1913, Wittgenstein decided to live for two years in Norway on his own to meditate and work on logic. Russell tried to dissuade him.

It is thy very energy of thoughtWhich keeps thee from thy God.

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.