Quotes About Contemplation

I got to reminiscing about the past. I thought of all the things I might have said and done, which I hadn't said or done.

There is a world here as full and rich, as compelling and instructive, as Thoreau found at Walden.

Only when we are truly alone does the fullness and richness of life reveal itself to us. In simplifying our lives, everything acquires a significance hitherto unknown. When we are one with ourselves the most insignificant blade of grass assumes its proper place in the universe

The crucial and truly pivotal events which mark our way are the fruits of silence and of solitude.

Life said Emerson, consists of what a man is thinking all day.If that be so, than my life is nothing but a big intestine. I not only dream about food all day, but I dream about it at night.

And so I think what miracle it would be if this miracle which man attends eternally should turn out to be nothing more than these two enormous turds which the faithful disciple dropped in the bidet .

Nes t?ra tik vienas didis nuotykis - vidinis skverbimasis ? save, o tam neturi ?takos nei laikas, nei erdv?, nei netgi veiksmai.

Life, said Emerson, consists in what a man is thinking all day.

Live deep instead of fast.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

She floats upon the river of his thoughts.

He looked at the walls, Awed at the heights His people had achieved And for a moment -- just a moment -- All that lay behind him Passed from view.

Politicians who are not contemplating early retirement usually find survival more attractive than martyrdom.

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whaleships' standing orders, Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.

for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action

Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever. But

I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother's rifle hung a small bundle of my clothes. My fingers worked moodily at the stock and trigger, and I thought that this indeed was the way to begin life, with a gun in your hand!

Over Descartian vortices you hover.

conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my

Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connections?

Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.