Quotes About Contemplation

I stared at my reflection and the trees behind it for a long time. Not thinking anything. Not feeling anything. Not hearing the record. For hours.

Do you always thinks this much, Charlie

Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

Then, I turned and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under a pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

The goal of human life, says Ramakrishna, is to meet God face to face. But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.

If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a vast blue, Echoless, ignorant -- What then?

Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed.

LCVI If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a bast blue, Echoless, ignorant,- What then?

MARJORY walked pensively along the hall. In the cool shadows made by the palms on the window ledge, her face wore the expression of thoughtful melancholy expected on the faces of the devotees who pace in cloistered gloom. She halted before a door at the end of the hall and laid her hand on the knob. She stood hesitating, her head bowed. It was evident that this mission was to require great fortitude.

One day he just found himself opening the door, allowing the inevitable. The world came in and filled the room. It seemed so familiar with everything.

Nestor considered awhile before speaking, a habit of his that irked many but which guaranteed that nothing foolish ever came from his mouth.

These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.

Everything makes sense if you look at it long enough.

I have spent my life travelling across the universe, inside my mind.

Le persone silenziose sono quelle che hanno le menti più rumorose.

The story that Newton was inspired by an apple hitting his head is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat 'in a contemplative mood' and 'was occasioned by the fall of an apple.')

Quiet people has the loudest minds.

The quietest people have the loudest minds

Quiet people have the loudest minds

remember to look up at the stars

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.