Quotes About Contemplation

Bello es lo que se contempla

La madera de la cruz hace dulce la amargura de los humanos. Cuando, en medio de un amargo sufrimiento, contemplamos el amor de Jesús, patente en la cruz, la amargura interior se convierte en dulzura.

actitud fundamental de esta oración es la veneración a Dios y la sensibilidad para su presencia permanente.

But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a kid who'd never viddied any such thing before, and he said: What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that? I nudged him hard, saying: Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing.

Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.

He seemed about to speak; then, as if he could not give sufficient weight to the words while we walked, he stopped and faced me.

This ideal conception?that one should have an aim in life?had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem; but I was still far from deciding what form my endeavours should ultimately take.

I'm not a religious chap. I don't know anything about that sort of thing. But there must be something beyond all this sex business.' 'Yes.' 'You think so?' 'Oh yes. Quite likely. Why not?' 'But what?' 'I can't help.' 'You can't.

Lady Warminster represented to a high degree that characteristic of her own generation that everything may be said, though nothing indecorous discussed openly. Layer upon layer of wrapping, box after box revealing in the Chinese manner yet another box, must conceal all doubtful secrets; only the discipline of infinite obliquity made it lawful to examine the seamy side of life. If these mysteries were observed everything might be contemplated: however unsavoury: however unspeakable.

Contemplation of this banal maxim increased the depression that had suddenly descended on me.

He continually thought of Lucy. But he did not think anything definite about her. He merely thought of her.

Torquil Fosdick is a funny boy, isn't he?    He certainly is.    I should think he was—well, at least I mean, you know—at least I should think anyone would think so, wouldn't you?    Oh yes, I should think so. If they took the trouble to think about him, I mean.

Don't do something—just stand there!

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." —Henry Ford

he was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering.

What," said he to himself, "can a man's religion be worth if it does not support him against the natural melancholy of declining years?" And as he looked out through his dimmed eyes into the bright parterres of the bishop's garden, he felt that he had the support which he wanted.

and Mary as she sat alone thinking of it afterwards might perhaps feel a soft regret that Reginald Morton had been interrupted by the talkative animal.

When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.

Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.

You need only to identify the relationships, places, memories, activities, book passages, and so on, that have that kind of power for you, and then remember to search them out when you feel war rising within you. When you've accessed such a place—an internal vantage point where peace remains—you can begin to ponder your challenges anew.

Treba se, dakle, baviti filozofijom ili se oprostiti od života i oti?i odavde, jer sve ostalo je golema besmislica i naklapanje.

Philosophy can make people sick.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23