Quotes About Contemplation

Sometimes when we see that we only have a few pages left we slow down, savoring each word, staving off the inevitable.

women need solitude in our lives to refill our well and garner strength to face life's deeper questions.

Seeing a sunset, Linnea felt connected both to the earth below and God above.

Why was it that silence sometimes felt like a physical thing with a weight of its own?

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy? he said softly. Assuredly, she said, provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.

But she knew she would not sleep until she had somehow sorted through her thoughts about the night before. She pulled a chair to the window, blew out the candle, and sat looking out onto the moonlit lawns and trees.

no hay objeto de estudio más digno del hombre que el hombre mismo».

my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer.

I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather

faces. Perhaps I had best

Populus me sibilat at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. (The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.)

Arthur Conan Doyle

he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.

I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow.

I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.

To me, he seemed to see the sap bleeding from the trunks of the pine trees, and the circle of brightness in the sky where the sun was smothered by clouds.

When I looked up, Nobu was watching me. Guests all around him were laughing and enjoying themselves, and there he sat with his eyes fixed on me, as lost in his thoughts as I had been in mine. We were like two wet spots in the midst of burning charcoal.

For Pythagoras as for Kepler, the two kinds of contemplation were twins; for them philosophy and religion were motivated by the same longing : to catch glimpses of eternity through the window of time.

Saints and mystics spend their lives trying to escape the prison of the flesh;