Quotes About Contemplation

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

zag jij misschien dat ik naar jou, dat ik je zag en dat ik zag hoe jij naar mij te kijken zoals ik naar jou en dat ik hoe dat heet zo steels, zo en passant en ook zo zijdelings - dat ik je net zo lang bekeek tot ik naar je staarde en dat ik staren bleef. Ik zag je toen en ik wist in te zien dat in mijn leven zoveel is gezien zonder dat ik het ooit eerder zag: dat kijken zoveel liefs vermag.

People think they think, but it's not true. It's mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare—just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

Porque é que cada pequena localidade não pode ter um santuário dedicado a uma grande peça de arte, em vez de as peças estarem todas juntas de uma forma que torna impossível a quem quer que seja apreendê-las de uma única vez? Uma só obra-prima não é suficiente para uma sala, ou até para um edifício? Ter numa única sala dez grandes obras de arte, ou cem, é absurdo, uma vez que cada uma delas é um mundo em si e por si.

True thinking is rare—just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time.

It sounds great, let me think about it …" or "Let me do a bit more research and I'll call you back.

Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here after you.

One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture

One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon.

It is amazing how much your brain races when you literally have nothing to do.

Right. So in order to become lifelong thinkers, all we have to do is stop thinking for ourselves for the next three years. I'm feeling better and better about this place by the minute.

Por un instante pensó en ir a su laboratorio, pero volvió a su primitiva idea y continuó caminando en dirección a su casa. Un buen libro, de los que yo no se utilizaban, para practicar el viejo arte de la lectura.

El anochecer siempre era una hora pésima par alas decisiones. la llegada de la noche esparcía sombras por doquiera, y los ánimos se hundían, preñados de pesimismo.

Ia devagar, como se carregasse um peso dentro de si, ia como que curvado por dentro.