Quotes About Contemplation

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

Everybody in a hurry to slow down.

Yes," I answered. But I stayed awake for the rest of that long, dark night, wondering what such a dream could possibly mean.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Ser feliz é contemplar a assinatura do Autor da Existência nas coisas simples e anônimas. É se deslumbrar com a chuva e com o sol. É recomeçar tudo de novo quando necessário.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

I think, therefore I'll think.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

Solitary meditation doesn't cause mental imbalances, but uncovers them.

The sequence between shamatha and vipashyana makes perfect sense: first refine your powers of attention, then use them to explore and purify the mind, which can be directly examined only through first-person observation.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

Let go of any conceptual associations you have regarding visual impressions. Let go of preferences or judgments...Your likes and dislikes...Just be present with the shapes and colors...focusing on them with bare attention.

i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.

Slowly the fire died away; nobody spoke. They lay on their backs warming their toes and watching the trembling stars high above and the dark rustling crown of the black poplars etched against the velvet sky.

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

After acting, reflect on what you have done. Has the brain interpreted the action correctly? If the brain does not observe correctly, then there is confusion in action. The duty of the brain is to receive knowledge from the body and then guide the body to further refine the action. Pause and reflect between each movement.