Quotes About Contemplation

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

We shall die alone.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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A distinctive of my second half is that I set aside time for introspection almost every weekend. My few hours of uninterrupted reading and thinking are the wellspring from which I draw living water to nurture the activities of the rest of my week.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

As part of the Six Element Practice, for example, we may repeat the phrase, "This is not me; this is not mine; I am not this." A verse such as this is, as it were, dropped into the mind.

I encourage the following practice: pause before you share. I encourage us all to take a moment before passing on a quote or a news story in order to do a little research. Someone (and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Buddha) said that "Google before you share" is the new "think before you speak.

I kept working and...reading The Theory of The Heavens a sentence at a time, savoring each sentence like a cough drop and brimming with a sense of the immensity, grandeur, and infinite beauty streaming at me from all sides

y es que yo puedo permitirme el lujo de abandonarme porque nunca estoy abandonado, estoy solo para poder vivir en una soledad poblada de pensamientos,...

Doua lucruri imi stapanesc mintea, mereu si staruitor minunandu-ma: cerul instelat deasupra mea si legea morala in mine.

Já když ?tu, tak vlastnÄ› ne?tu, já si naberu do zobá?ku krásnou vÄ›tu a cucám ji jako bonbón, jako bych popíjel skleni?ku likéru tak dlouho, až ta myÅ¡lenka se ve mnÄ› rozplývá tak jako alkohol, tak dlouho se do mne vstÃ…â"¢ebává, až je nejen v mým mozku a srdci, ale hrká mými žilami až do koÃ…â"¢ínk? cév.

Îmi pot permite luxul de a fi p?r?sit,deÅŸi niciodat? nu sunt p?r?sit de fapt,sunt doar singur,ca s? pot tr?i în singur?tatea populat? de idei,pentru c? eu sunt puÅ£in l?ud?ros,un l?ud?ros al infinitului ÅŸi al eternit??ii,iar Infinitul ÅŸi Eternitatea au poate o sl?biciune pentru cei asemeni mie.

Dovevate starvene seduti a casa, sul culo...

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

cuando leo, de hecho no leo, sino que tomo una frase bella en el pico y la chupo como un caramelo, la sorbo como una copita de licor, la saboreo hasta que, como el alcohol, se disuelve en mí, la saboreo durante tanto tiempo que acaba no sólo penetrando mi cerebro y mi corazón, sino que circula por mis venas hasta las raíces mismas de los vasos sanguíneos.

yo puedo permitirme el lujo de abandonarme porque nunca estoy abandonado, estoy solo para poder vivir en una soledad poblada de pensamientos...

Cz?owiek miewa w ?yciu takie chwile, ?e lubi otacza? si? przedmiotami, które przypominaj? smutek.

Holy theology arises from knees bend before the mystery of the divine child in the stable.

So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was—the Messiah—or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched.

Even to yourself.

I'd given myself a license to look back, to lift up stones under which I knew lay creepy-crawlies.