Quotes About Contemplation

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.