Quotes About Contemplation

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift-logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.

I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in

I allowed silence to accumulate while I got my impressiveness together

When you find yourself on the side of the majority, you should pause and reflect.

So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder.

Cada vez que se encuentre usted del lado de la mayoría, es tiempo de hacer una pausa y reflexionar.