Quotes About Contemplation

Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

You are alone with everything you love.

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

Yogis love to be alone.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.

What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

Blazing? Droplets of thoughts can soothe it all. Don't feel depleted. Bask in the residue. That remains!

On the whole, God's love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

Going nowhere isn't about turning your back on the world; it's about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.