Quotes About Contemplation

In almost thirty years of walking around on the grass of the world, she couldn't recall having spent two minutes alone with a butterfly.

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.

My thoughts kept straying onto random paths...hoping to get lost in a thicket.

Living takes life. But it can be thoughtful. A little bit humble about the necessity, maybe. You can consider the costs of your various choices.

regular Niagara of blond highlights was Crystal, sitting alone with her breakfast, gazing at it with such earnest focus, you'd think she was on a first date with that Pepsi and glazed doughnut.

I had a window seat, and in a Greyhound you're up high. You pass through the land like some rajah on an elephant looking down on your kingdom.

Like I'm doing right now?" I perked up, thinking

she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.

moment, and began muttering to himself.

DA Langlais imparò che tra tutte le vite possibili, a una bisogna ancorarsi per poter contemplare, sereni, tutte le alte.

Possibile che debba finire così? Saltuariamente - si sarà notato - accade di pensare: possibile che debba finire così? Io, di mio, era un po' che non lo pensavo. Avevo smesso di interrogarmi. Si scivola giù, senza accorgersi di molto, assordati dal dolore, ed è tutto.

The third floor was quieter still. For a few moments, I leaned against the railing surrounding the open center of the floor, gazing down at the band, at the patrons at the tables before the stage, and at the waiters crossing between, and felt an odd sadness descend, both remote and heavy, as though I was watching this lively scene not so much from on high but rather from an impossibly detached and alienated distance

rubbing his chin, "as Nicolas Cage put it in Con Air, 'On any other day, that might seem strange.

I didn't know what I wanted. I trained at the Kodokan and reflected at quiet shrines and enjoyed my jazz clubs and coffee houses and whisky bars. I took long, nocturnal walks through the damascene city, and considered what I'd been part of, and what I'd almost caused. I wondered about my son and I missed Delilah. I thought about Horton. I made no decisions. I

My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.

This is the only time you can study both of your shadows. If you sit perfectly still and watch your primary shadow as the sun sets you will be able to hold it long enough to see your other shadow fill up when the moon rises like a porcelain basin with clear water. If you turn carefully to face the south you may regard both of them: to understand the nature of silence you must be able to see into this space between your shadows.

We, all of us, look back over our lives, trying to make sense of what happened, to see what enduring threads might be there.

You can sit for a long time with the history of man like a stone in your hand. The stillness, the pure light, encourage it.

Thinking about the world as it isn't, but might be or might have been, is called counterfactual thinking.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

and time to think. He drove

A drop of pond water under the microscope just like in science class but now your are the pond & the microscope is mindfulness