Quotes About Contemplation

Meditation is an abstraction of attention from one's self, to fix it entirely on God, it is the will insisting on His reality.

Reason starts from itself to return to itself.

I lie alone under the mocking sky. The midnight hours indifferently walk by.

I would slake my thirst sometimes at the wells of old remembrance; But the water is so deep I fear to fall therein.

My moments are numbered; and if I would expose him with my dying sigh, I must not sentimentalize over my own decay.

I'm no good at the new games because I rarely play them. I like old things. Old books. Old movies. Old TV shows. [...] Life was more complicated, but it was quieter, I bet. Slower. [...] The distractions then were card catalogs and dust and the smell of old paper and ink. The distractions were deep. I wonder what it would be like to go back in time, to live as long ago as the 1980s, or even further back. To know what was to come.

I don't want to think about or start thinking about figuring out my life, for whatever it's worth.

When I'm with other people, I usually don't think about it. Sometimes, it catches me off-guard, but I usually don't. When I'm alone, it's all I can think about.

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

It would do the world good if every man in it would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Away from people, who blunt the edges of his personality: away from books and magazines, which give him his thinking pre-digested: away on a long walk, where he could face the world with a naked mind and compel himself to think some things through by himself. Most of the world's progress has come out of periods of such loneliness.

In olden days, when towns were more scattered, distances greater, and life less complex, men were accustomed to be alone for hours and even days, and could stand it. The modern man must be talking, or he must be reading, or he must be playing: anything lest by accident he be left alone for a little time and compelled to think.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere.

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Kareeda ni Karasu no tomarikeri Aki no kure trans: On a bare branch A crow is perched - Autumn evening

Seduto in silenzio, senza fare nulla, arriva la primavera e l'erba cresce da sola.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

dozing on horseback smoke form the tea-fires drifts to the moon

on this mountain sorrow...tell me about it digger of wild yams

Angele had her reservations but kept her own counsel.

The dying does not amount to much ... it is the thinking about it that hurts.

Try thinking more if just for your own sake