Quotes About Contemplation

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!

Sometimes life hands us a mirror and dares us to take a look.