Quotes About Contemplation

Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.

It is not enough to have perceived such a notion, given it one's attention, understood it; it must be given a permanent place in the mind, so that it may be present even when one's attention is directed toward something else.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Man only escape from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.

Preserve your solitude.

It sometimes happens that a thought, either formulated to oneself or not formulated at all, works secretly on the mind and yet has but little direct influence over it.

Never, in any case, is any effort of true attention lost. It is always completely effective on the spiritual plane, and therefore also, in addition, on the inferior plane of the intelligence, for all spiritual light enlightens the intelligence.

When pain and weariness reach the point of causing a sense of perpetuity to be born in the soul, through contemplating this perpetuity with acceptance and love, we are snatched away into eternity.

How much time do you devote to thinking each day?

It is better to accept the limit, to contemplate it and savour all its bitterness.

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things I see.

Méthode pour comprendre les images, les symboles. etc. Non pas essayer de les interpréter, mais les regarder jusqu'à ce que la lumière jaillisse.

My dear man, there's nothing I'd like better than to be by myself occasionally... I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my tempermentality while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face and shout seen my brown pants?

lilo on the floor next to my bed was empty. I looked out of the window

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I mediated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.

Nuestra mente debe ser tan libre como la misma naturaleza- Sherlock Holmes, Estudio en escarlata

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.

There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.

Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

Once the windows of the mind are opened, they can never be closed. Let the fresh breeze of thoughts come in now.

turned to look out the windscreen

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.