Quotes About Contemplation

La muerte sirve para hacernos pensar, pero no sobre la muerte sino sobre la vida.

Para qué más ruido afuera con el que llevábamos adentro!

En silencio la realidad pesa menos.

se sentaba en una mecedora a vigilarlo, a contemplarlo. A darle brillo de amor con sus ojos alertas.

Por primera vez podía verme a mí mismo como a otro.

Nonetheless innuendo and imperfectly definable actions hover over the actions of the hermit.

What would Jane do?

consider the meaning of these images. Every time you're working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal something is, the more its universality emerges.

The man of visionary mind may sit down before one solitary cabbage, and find food for his thought, if not for his palate, in the reflection, "Truly thou mightest have been my brother.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

I am completely half afraid to think.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Cuando se está allí dentro, una imagina cosas grandiosas sobre el mundo, y cuando sale, a veces desearía volver a oír el sonido de la campana.

On a bench a toad kept him company: "A slaughterhouse aesthetic must exist.

I am familiar with the impatience we feel when forced to suspend the enchantment of solitude.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

There are, however, other kinds of meditation. One of them is known as active meditation. In this form of meditation, one relaxes the body and enters

Dac? Dumnezeu exist? cu adev?rat, m? întreb ce o fi învârtit în ziua aia.

Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints…

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.

silence usually taught him more than the company of others.

Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences.

Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall.

You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second.