Quotes About Contemplation

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and down, all the good works and psychic genuflecting. All the good works in the world will not bring you and closer to Me. Stand still. Let Me look at you and find Myself reflected. Maybe for a brief moment, you thought it was all about you, but surprise, Creation. It is all about Me.

Loneliness is good practice for eternity.

La mejor manera de emplear tu tiempo es separarte de todo, y en la soledad de tu habitación, observar el caleidoscopio de este mundo desconocido.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

Sighing, he paused a moment as if to take in my essence or to gather his wits. As he had no wits to gather, it must have been my essence giving him pause.

Miss Charlotte was often and spectacularly silent. But her silence was that of the woods and hills, a natural absence of speech. The maharani's, on the other hand, made Mrs. Watson think of the walled forts of Jaipur, a silence that watched and hid.

Charlotte sat before her vanity, pinning up her hair and counting her chins.

In solitude we don't reject the world but have the space to think our thoughts.

To reclaim solitude we have to learn to experience a moment of boredom as a reason to turn inward, to defer going "elsewhere" at least some of the time.

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

Solitude reinforces a secure sense of self, and with that, the capacity for empathy. Then, conversation with others provides rich material for self-reflection. Just as alone we prepare to talk together, together we learn how to engage in a more productive solitude.

Online life is about premeditation.

Use concrete events to think about large ideas. Use large ideas to think about concrete events.