Quotes About Contemplation

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.

We cannot measure the vast orbit of the Divine thought of which we are but an atom as small as God is great; but we can feel its vastness, we can kneel, adore, and wait.

It's a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you're never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.

Quando lo stesso tema si presenta per ben due volte in poco tempo, bisogna prestarvi attenzione.

Mi piacciono le persone che mi fanno pensare spesso [...].

That's because you think about everything in words ... You can go around and around the same question all you like, and never find an answer. I know that's how you cope, how you get through time, so I've never thought it was immature, or unhelpful. But there's another way of doing it: to sit with an empty space, and just look at it, without thinking anything, just enduring. Some people can do that.

When I'm dead worn out, in a reverie, I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen. Whether it's cold and I'm all alone, or somebody's there and it's warm, I'll stare death fearlessly in the eye. If it's a kitchen, I'll think, 'How good.

Nei momenti più insignificanti, mentre sono in cucina a preparare la cena, o quando guardo il tramonto, a volte divento terribilmente malinconica, proprio come se un grosso grumo di tristezza mi fosse tutt'a un tratto penetrato dentro.

cerchiamo di ridurre il tempo passato a guardare cose che non vogliamo guardare o fare cose che preferiremmo non fare. Limitiamo le ore trascorse inutilmente. .... Rallentiamo il ritmo, e prima di addormentarci ripensiamo a ognuna delle cose che abbiamo fatto.

you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.

I crawled back under the covers, still staring at that cold-looking, powerful snowstorm outside. My cheeks burned. Eriko was no more. Watching that scene, I really knew it for the first time. No matter how it turned out with Yuichi and me, no matter how long or beautiful a life I would live, I would never see her again.

I've traveled a long way today, I often think to myself.

Potevo andare in qualunque posto, fare qualunque cosa. Stavo toccando con mano e vedendo con i miei occhi quanto fosse immenso il mondo e profonda l'oscurità e l'infinito fascino e solitudine di tutto ciò.

Rifletteva il cielo azzurro di quella preziosa schiarita della stagione delle piogge.

Non avevo al mondo nessuno del mio sangue, potevo andare in qualunque posto, fare qualunque cosa. Provai una sorta di vertigine. Stavo toccando con mano e vedendo con i miei occhi, per la prima volta, quanto fosse immenso il mondo e profonda l'oscurità e l'infinito fascino e solitudine di tutto ciò.

After I hung up, the quiet of the room took shape and pressed in on me. The room was soon full of the pale blue of early dawn.

pensé en silencio.

Try adding contemplation to your actions. When you are sweeping, you can be removing anger or fear. When you are mowing, you can be cutting down desire and greed.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.