Quotes About Contemplation

adrift in private thoughts, anchored to the world by unfamiliar shadows.

But there was something about walking

And if we Negroes at the back of beyond honor our dead for nine days, it's so that the soul of the deceased should not be hurried in any way, so that it can detach itself gradually from its piece of earth, its chair, its favorite tree, and the faces of its friends, before going to contemplate the hidden side of the sun.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Silence gives you an opportunity to listen to your heart.' Sm

Deep in our thoughts we find the best of us.

Look back, then tap your shoulder.

What we stationed in our minds, our eyes behold.

A sabedoria, contemplando o género humano, só conduz a estes dois resultados: ao desdém ou à compaixão.

Roamin' in the Gloamin'.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

Disciplined inaction.

Christmas is a time of silent waiting.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.

Shall I, like a hermit, dwellOn a rock or in a cell?

the spectator is the true vanishing point

Una mujer sentada junto a la ventana. Piensa / y mientras piensa, desespera / desespera por ser quien es / y no otra persona.

Hon tog till sig en liten del av det som fanns där, bäcken bakom vårt hus, skogarna med sina stenar och sin mossa och buskvegetation, och blodroten, blåklockorna och violerna som spirade i den våta jorden varje vår. Allt detta blev henne förtroget, men fälten med sina ändlösa rader som strålade samman vid horisonten under en oändlig himmel rymde ingen riktig mening för henne. Hur älskar man så mycket tomhet? (189)