Quotes About Contemplation

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

When at a loss about something, go and take counsel by yourself. For in the midst of shouting, the advantageous course is not to be seen, but as one reasons with oneself, it shines out clear.

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I'll settle down.

Children already ignore others and take time on their own, and I think that is something adults should refer back to as they deal with the everyday hustle of the world.

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

I'm truly 95 percent a hermit.

I'm sort of a hermit.

I love to be a hermit.