Quotes About Contemplation

Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

What is it?""A prayer.""For a child?"She nodded."For me?"Another nod."On a tree?""Trees spend all day looking up at God.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

We must always be disturbed by the truth.