Quotes About Contemplation

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Your attention has to be on your Spirit.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

An evil word it is/ This Love.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I love the broad margin to my life.

One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

I love the process of being alone in a room.

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.