Quotes About Contemplation

You can't think about thinking without thinking about something

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

If he only knew how much, she thought as she moved on. As

All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling.

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

As so often happens in life, he had thought so much and so often of the situation that now confronted him that he was somewhat nervous in its presence.

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I have come to this lonely place, and here is this other.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

You forget about all those things—you're just dominated by the vanishing-ness of things. It's just Gone, Gone, Gone. That, once again, leads to a figure-ground reversal. You are about to become Gone. Good, go with that.

Each day is peppered with a holy glow.

meditation elevates a person's base level of focus. By focus, I mean the ability to attend to what's relevant in a given situation.

I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.

He found himself waking, despite the alarm clock's shrill ring, ten minutes earlier each day, and as he placed his head on the pillow each evening, numbers and names and new ventures would float through his mind, directionless, like blackbirds.

It is said that when Alexander heard that the philosopher Diogenes was the smartest person in the world, he decided he must meet the man. So he went to Corinth, where Diogenes was contemplating his theories as he lay in the sun. Alexander stood over him and said, "I am Alexander, conqueror of worlds; put forward your request and it shall be done." Diogenes squinted up at him, shook his head, and said, "Just get out of my light.

That's what I thought at the time. On second thought, perhaps I didn't really think at all.

Speak less, listen deeply.

Wisdom is something which will come out of your mindfulness. So the point is to be ready for observing things, and to be ready for thinking. This is called emptiness of your mind.

To be aware of the meaning of your life, you practice zazen.

When you feel disagreeable it is better for you to sit. There is no other way to accept your problem and work on it.