Quotes About Contemplation

the ultimate purpose of the spiritual Way is not just a person who says prayers from time to time, but a person who is prayer all the time.

Laughing, he said, "Cancer or Islam—which is the greater affliction?

seeped into his bones from decades of sitting outdoors in

No one as intense as he was could could possibly have managed to survive until almost thirty without thinking about death from time to time.

The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You don't think that I would be one of the characters of today's modern Bible?

Insights are achieved in silence.

If you are serious about living a peaceful life, drop all matters pertaining to the world, and pursue all matters pertaining to yourself.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

I think that quiet lends itself to that kind of in-your-own-head introspection.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Introspection! I hate it!

There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.

I'm an introspective dude.

I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.

I am not very introspective.

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

I'm a very introspective individual.

There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.

I'm naturally an introvert.

I keep things mostly to myself. I'm more of an introvert.

I've always been an introvert.

I was very introverted.

I'm pretty introverted and I spend a lot of time in books, a lot of time thinking and by myself, because that's what I enjoy to recharge.

I invariably do some of my best thinking on Saturdays.