Quotes About Contemplation

You: a woman too old for passive contemplation caught staring out a window at bird-of-paradise spikes jewelled with rain, across an alley

In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't.

Silence reveals itself only to itself. Only when we enter as nothing and stay as nothing, will silence open its secret

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

True inquiry is experiential

Meditation is like an oven that forces the truth out.

As I delved deeper into these Christian mystics, I was beginning to question in my own mind if I needed to make a path change from Zen Buddhism to Christianity. It had been many years since I'd been to my first Catholic mass, and I decided to go back a second time.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Look to it and consider, and deem not That ever stubbornness excels discretion.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic.

Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.

If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?

But afterwards you went on remembering.

Do you like sitting here looking out to the sea?" - Vera E. Claythorne

One must seek the truth within – not without.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

Queer, thought Henrietta, how things can seep into you without your knowing it...

He was engaged at the moment in a careful stocktaking of his thoughts and emotions.

He was tired because he had been thinking. Thinking was always exhausting.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?" -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie