Quotes About Contemplation

Standing there, I am struck by a strong but pleasant sadness. All my anxiety leaves me as I look outside. I stand and look for a while longer and then return to bed.

She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.

To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

I love talking about Scientology.

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

I love lying in darkness.

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.