Quotes About Contemplation

I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.

Spaceflight gives us a chance to reflect on the context of our existence. We are reminded that we are human before any of our differences, before all of the lines are drawn that divide us.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

One of the things you do, when you have a scene or whatever it is you're doing, I replay that scene in my head and pick different positions to watch it from in my head.

I'm not a hunter.

Think until it hurts.

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

I might be an idiot.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.