Quotes About Contemplation

No one ever stands in a cemetery at midnight, puffing out a breath in mid-winter while the snowflakes gathered at the tips of their eyelashes. I

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

May the stillness of a golf course remind us that often it takes less courage to stand up and speak than to sit down and listen.

Know what happened, wonder what happened or ignore what happened and i would not want to be 2 or 3

What, exactly, am I going to do with my life?

Think lightly of yourself and think deeply of the world. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI

She'd long ago given up trying to visualize God. There was no He or She. This was a Presence higher than gender, race or religion, transcending identity. All she would ever hope to do was follow the lamplit path into a place within and yet beyond her own heart and stay there and wait, patient and passive and without forced piety.

You've learned by now to wait without waiting; as if it were dusk look into light falling: in deep relief things even out. Be careless of nothing. See what you see. from "How to See Deer

What qualifies as a good question? It's one that gets us thinking about something worth thinking about. So one way to identify a good question is what I call the smack-the-forehead test: when you read the question after time has passed, you smack your forehead and say, "If only I had thought of that before!

the point of writing music and experiencing music isn't to make people comfortable necessarily

This is a good place for thinking about your life, a few days in this place.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.

Ando's austerity is very much at home with the Japanese aesthetic of limited furnishings and an avoidance of the clutter that so often charac terizes Western homes . The purity of the space invites contemplation of the view , and the architecture is the device that permits such thoughtful observance .

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

wondering if I should

Rankin lit a cigarette with a handsome gold lighter, stared into the flame for a moment as if it might provide a clue to the origins of the explosion, and then said, 'What do you think

Sometimes there is nothing quite

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I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself...

Life is slow dying.

I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires of mingled shame, pain or remorse. Cheerful prospect!