Quotes About Contemplation

Okay." He hesitated. One word. So far, not so good.

in one of the quiet places she went to read some

These people will think their way around an ice cream cone before ever giving it a lick.

they stared at the vanishing light of day, the sky and water going from orange to pink to purple, then dark blue.

Together, Thomas and Teresa watched, and imagined what it must be like.

The only way out is within.

I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

A picture will leave me unmoved if I don't take time with it, but if I stop, and let myself get a little lost, there's no telling what might happen

To maximize the usefulness of realizations that may occur during your psychedelic voyage, it is invaluable to write out beforehand what you hope to learn, experience, understand, or resolve.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

Do some involuntary forms of ''no-thought'' attention normally exist that can be cultivated during long-term meditative training?

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked. "What do the lamas do?" she continued. "They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom." "But that isn't doing anything." "Then, madam, they do nothing.

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Shut your eyes and see.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

if you stay still for long enough, the universe whispers its secrets to you.

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

define Ignatian spirituality in a few words, you could say that it is: Finding God in all things Becoming a contemplative in action Looking at the world in an incarnational way Seeking freedom and detachment

Great works are often quiet works.