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Quotes About Contemplation

In secret places we can think and imagine, we can feel angry or sad in peace. There is something to be said for just being, without worrying about offending anyone.
~ Sophie Dahl
Sometimes a gentle perambulation causes a new idea to rise to the surface of one's thoughts.
~ Sophie Hannah
Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
~ Sophocles
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
~ Sophocles
Leave me to my own absurdity.
~ Sophocles
Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?
~ Sorin Cerin
Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?
~ Sorin Cerin
The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.
~ Sorin Cerin
We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!
~ Sorin Cerin
We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries.
~ Sorin Cerin
Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep.
~ Soyen Shaku
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
~ Spanish proverb
They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
you can tap into your inner Buddha if you take the time to observe your life, your actions, your reactions, your choices, and the consequences.
~ Spike Gillespie
Omul liberber se gînde?te cel mai pu?in la moarte ; în?elepciunea sa este de a medita nu asupra mor?ii, ci asupra vie?ii.
~ Spinoza
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
~ Sri Aurobindo
When mind is still, then Truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
~ Sri Aurobindo
[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections
~ Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile
~ Sri Chinmoy
What is Meditation?' Excerpt from Meditation: God's Duty and Man's Beauty
~ Sri Chinmoy
My meditation Is my soul's Most beautiful and most powerful God-manifestation-dream On earth
~ Sri Chinmoy