Quotes About Contemplation

Observo de cerca la mueca concentrada del final: parece como si todavía estuviera soñando. ¿Con qué soñabas, viejo soldado?

la muerte acaba siempre por imponer su silencio en los que la contemplan.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

The future without days. Without days of it? in it? I try to—just for a second—feel that shape.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

The soul is pained by all things it thinks upon.

Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.

Wie ein Eremit war er des Lebens überdrüssig und er- wartete nichts mehr von ihm: reif zur Einsamkeit; und ebenso war er gleich einem Mönch unendlich matt; er wollte sich sammeln, nichts mehr gemein haben mit den Weltlichen, die für ihn die Utilitaristen und Dummköpfe waren.

He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.

I have only to renew my pact with Solitude, to which I have tried to be unfaithful.

He grew enthusiastic in thinking of the convents. Ah! to be earthed up among them, sheltered from the herd, not to know what books appear, what newspapers are printed, never to know what goes on outside one's cell, among men—to complete the beneficent silence of this cloistered life, nourishing ourselves with good actions, refreshing ourselves with plain song, saturating ourselves with the inexhaustible joys of the liturgies.

Andrés palpó la gasa delicadamente, llevándola hacia la ventana para mirar la luz que hería el recamado. Estuvo largo rato pensativo, examinando ese objeto vivo aún pero a punto de expirar, extendido levísimo en sus brazos, brillante en medio de todo el polvo.

ya sabéis que el gran Platón dijo que las matemáticas tienen la finalidad de conducir al espíritu a la contemplación de las esencias inteligibles.

La Rutina, síntesis de todos los renunciamientos, es el hábito de renunciar a pensar.

Era de esos hombres que no disponen de tiempo ni ocasión para dejar de ocuparse de sí mismos.

Take care that your philosophy does not outpace your thought.

I was always, luckily, only a reader.

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.

What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.

the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.