Quotes About Contemplation

Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen // Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen

Think with feeling

He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought

Proof seduces them. One of the greatest pleasures of the human race is thinking.

Sitting. Sitting is the hardest, Mr Ui. Yes, some people can walk, and some people can stand; but show me the man who knows how to sit.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.

This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Religion should be a personal and private thing between a soul and God.

That is one reason for thinking hard—in order to think better. And the harder you think, the more will your thinking instrument improve.

In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

It should be said that I love best the early-morning hours when my thoughts are my own. I love the scratched-glass bubble of a solo train ride. A solitary walk in search of turtle shells beside a lazy canal. This here and this now, this page, when memory is the other person in the room, the voice in my ear, the speculation.

Worship is focus.

No. Silence is something. This is nothing. Why couldn't I hear it before? I think it has been there always. From the beginning of time.' He put out his hand and stubbed it on my arm, stared at it. 'At the end of the world, at the beginning of the world; under the sea and over the sky; at the root and crown of the universe: nothing. At all. That's what I heard. What I hear.' He leaned forward. 'Do you understand?

Duuni let her questions fall and rode on toward wherever it was she was supposed to go, watching the mountain change slowly, like a jewel turned in the light.

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen...and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency.

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about.

when one is intelligent enough, one tries to find out the supreme cause of all causes - within and without.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.