Quotes About Contemplation

The spirit within each human being is a small fragment of the Divine and Eternal, and if we give it the opportunity to speak, it will do so—but only when we keep our engagement to dismiss everyday difficulties, be quiet, and listen.

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make of a house like this. Would Barbara

Not moving, and barely

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

No matter what you look at, if you look at it closely enough, you are involved in the entire universe.

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Because of the times we live in, all of us, young and old, do not spend enough time and effort thinking about the meaning of life. We do not look inside ourselves enough to understand our strengths and weaknesses, and we do not look around enough - a the world, in history - to ask the deepest and broadest questions. The solution surely is that, even now, we could all use a little bit more of a liberal education.

else to go Felicity sits down upon the steps to consider

had enough time to think about it.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

THE POOL Horned owl Stops his meditations, cleans his glasses, sighs. A firefly spins downhill & a star slides by. Old owl shaked his wings, takes up his meditations.

In the parched pathI have seen the good lizard(one drop of crocodile)meditating.

atendía la vida como quien come distraído.

A veces pienso en lo larga y tolerante que es la vida, después de haberla malgastado tanto tiempo, Otras, cuando pienso en los amigos que se me murieron y en que yo sigo viviendo, me parece que este tiempo es robado y que lo tengo que vivir a escondidas.

Por caminos muy distintos he tenido siempre los mismo recuerdos. De día y de noche ellos corren por mi memoria como los ríos de una país. Algunas veces yo los contemplo; y otras veces ellos se desbordan.

In the darkness I thought of Fyodorovich, deep in the Kolyma taiga. It was the eleventh of October, and already, I imagined, the first light snows had dusted the area around Sunny Lake. I pictured the old man sitting alone in the sun by the lakeshore, smoking a Prima and gazing skyward as the last of the whooper swans flew south, squawking and trumpeting as they went.

Wisdom begins in listening; listening begins in silence; silence is rooted in solitude.

This is why one becomes a monk: to cultivate in every moment presence to the beauty of the world.

morning. Her gaze lowered to the screen.

En vez de entrar en las tiendas, prefiere sentarse en la iglesia y practicar su ateísmo silencioso.

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.