Quotes About Contemplation

Kita berdua saja duduk, Aku memesan ilalang panjang dan bunga rumput, Kau entah memesan apa, Aku memesan batu ditengah sungai terjal yang deras, Kau entah memesan apa, Tapi kita berdua saja duduk,

The moon has set and the Pleiades. Middle of the night, time spins away and I lie alone.

They were silent for a moment, each of them contemplating Anthony Comstock, a demagogue with too much power for such a limited understanding and narrow mind. Many saw him as nothing more than a sanctimonious buffoon, but those who paid attention knew him to be malicious and calculating.

It wasn't an unusual thing for her to keep her thoughts to herself. She had that Quaker habit. Quiet contemplation, she call[ed] it. I got to like it myself, listening to the world without making any noise to add to it.

Caught in the gloaming, suspended in the gilded hour, she saw herself in a landscape of years stretching into a horizon she had never dared imagine for herself.

We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.

I get to thinking, and when I get to thinking it's not always good

Don't you think it's a good idea to . . . I don't know. To slow down sometimes? To look around and see what you want out of life?

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

Autumn Dusk I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

Life is but thought.

I stood beside a hill Smooth with new-laid snow, A single star looked out From the cold evening glow. There was no other creature That saw what I could see - I stood and watched the evening star As long as it watched me.

Oh, I could let the world go by, Its loud new wonders and its wars, BUt how will I give up the sky When winter dusk is set with stars? And I could let the cities go, Their changing customs and their creeds,– But oh, the summer rains that blow In silver on the jewel-weeds!

Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.