Quotes About Contemplation

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

Janet Erskine Stuart

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Everything in life should be done with reflection.