Quotes About Contemplation

Isaac looked for a grand patter to the Universe. He spent long periods lost in thought. Then suddenly he dashed off several pages without pausing.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Observó a los presentes en la sala y pensó que a veces el silencio se puede reflejar en los ojos de las personas.

Es más fácil escuchar a alguien un rato e improvisar que sentarse día tras día y penetrar las capas de lo mundano y trivial en búsqueda de lo profundo.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.

When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.

It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.

Cuando meditamos eso es exactamente lo que hacemos. Dejamos a Dios ser Dios. Nos dejamos estar en su presencia. Ese es su extraordinario poder. Cronol

St John of the Cross,

If he couldn't be alone, then he couldn't think of anyone he'd rather have irritating him.

mind. Your feelings might be coming

Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest,Beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

It occurred to me that I could be less mindful of man, and I seemed to catch a glimpse of freedom.

When deep August arrives, a certain melancholy sets in, the kind people get on a Sunday afternoon.

She yearned to be left alone with her interior life rather than to explain it.

days in the dark by myself. We're engaged