Quotes About Contemplation

Phrantzes considered for a moment, collecting his thoughts like a general rallying his surviving troops after a massacre.

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

Can't you see? Why do you try to catch the flashes in the sky? Why don't you be the sky, rising above everything, silent, watching, waiting?

He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.

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Don't go outside your house to see the flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days…

Our work is to cross a treshold into emptiness and stillness. It is like entering an empty room that proves to hold a great presence. The apparent emptiness of simple presence is richer than the crowded experience of ordinary personality. We can either be empty with Spirit or full of ourselves.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt

We did have a pretty intense discussion of why it was that we were continuing to make a bomb after the war had been [virtually] won.

decompression chamber for scholars.

Wartime compelled some mild-mannered men to contemplate what was once unthinkable

Nichts ist so vergänglich wie ein Gedanke.

since no words would come to mind, I just drank him in for a minute. - Taylor First, The Tutor by Kailin Gow

Some days, theory is all that we have," I say. "It's better than having nothing at all.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Speaking of art): In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistably rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it.

Zen is a name derived from the Sanscrit word Dhyana, which signifies meditation.

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

Images and thoughts will constantly rise up within us. Let them recede into the background. In the foreground, put Jesus.

The Jesus Prayer is not only Christ-centered but Trinitarian.

The Trinity is not a philosophical theory but the living God whom we worship; and so there comes a point in our approach to the Trinity when argumentation and analysis must give place to wordless prayer. "Let