Quotes About Contemplation

Jag kom ihåg från fordom, att du brukade smyga dig undan hit, när du hade en ledig stund, för att sitta och sörja. - Jag hade inte mycket att sörja över på den tiden. - Den sorg du inte hade, den hittade du på åt dig.

I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.

Love without philosophizing is like having a quick coffee.

Write a letter, refresh your habit.

The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.

You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

SHE HAS BEEN SITTING ON A WOODEN BENCH in the courtyard

she guesses and she is briefly grateful that the large quadrant

slim volumes;

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.

We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.

But fluttery hope suggested that when she was ready to open back up, perhaps all emotions wouldn't be stones-pressing-chest horrible. She had no specific expectations. She just contemplated that bird's heartbeat inside her and considered it was time to take a chance.

Porque ha dicho el que explica la Verdad que todos los peligros aterradores y los incontables tormentos de éste y los otros mundos preceden por igual de pensamiento.

I'm not sure what there is to say. Everything? Or nothing.

she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7