Quotes About Contemplation

me custava muito menos pensar do que ser.

La noche queda para quien es

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all other action.

As in a mirror, he 'looks at himself again and again before performing an action; he looks at himself again and again before saying a word; he looks at himself again and again before harboring a thought.' It can easily be seen that by following such a path a man naturally transforms himself into a kind of living statue made up of awareness, into a figure pervaded by composedness, decorum, and dignity . . .

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all action.

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

LISTEN Listening to your heart, finding out who you are, is not simple. It takes time for the chatter to quiet down. In the silence of "not doing" we begin to know what we feel. If we listen and hear what is being offered, then anything in life can be our guide. Listen. —author unknown

RENEWAL Imagine not that life is all doing. Stillness, too, is life; and in that stillness the mind cluttered with busyness quiets, the heart reaching to win rests, and we hear the whispered truths of God. —rabbi rami m. shapiro

The only way out is in.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

I should say something but I don't know where a person can start.

the only time she looked straight at anything was when she looked out a window.

Meditation is one attempt! to be above the thinking of the mind, to Realize the inexplicable stage of awareness."

He said books were more interesting than people.

He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.

I would not say I was a nonbeliever; rather, that I gave little if any thought to celestial concerns. It did not seem to me that God, whoever he was, would be the sort of god to take an interest in the minutiae of human affairs, or that this fact released us from the duty to go about our lives in a spirit of decency to others.

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and take my love away.

When evening fell he dragged a chair out to the porch, where he sat through the night, a shotgun on his lap, staring into the dark.

but his mind, free to go wherever it wished, chose to move over the past, hovering atop it like a bird over some immense body of water, no shoreline in sight, only the distant reflection of himself in its shining surface for company.

man sat in a concrete box long enough, thinking about his own death, and he boiled down to milky dust like water in a teapot forgotten on a stove;

But probably they were all sleeping, too. It was only she, Arnette, who was sentenced to a night of pacing the halls of her mind. Because

I've been doing a lot of thinking" "Uh-Oh, Thinking. That's a dangerous business!

And on the way, we'll have plenty of time to talk or not talk about whatever's on your mind