Quotes About Contemplation

If we practice stopping while attending to e-mails, surfing the Web, attending meetings or appointments, folding the laundry, washing the dishes, or taking a shower, we are living deeply.

The instant you sit down to meditate, begin watching your breath. At first breathe normally, gradually letting your breathing slow down until it is quiet, even, and the lengths of the breaths are fairly long. From the moment you sit down to the moment your breathing has become deep and silent, be conscious of everything

Saint Macarius said, "It is not necessary to use many words. Only stretch out your arms and say, 'Lord, have pity on me as you desire and as you well know how.

People ask me, "Why do you do walking meditation?" The best answer I can give is, "Because I like it.

He who judges a situation impulsively is not righteous.

In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

as I go, like those others. I will not be here any more. He seemed to be going over each step in his mind—each step with which he was so familiar, only now, for the first time, he was living it for himself.

So they decided against me. Now I will have to go through that door after all,—like all those others. They'll draw the curtains for me, too. Into that other room—then back across the passage— saying good-bye as I go, like those others. I will not be here any more. He seemed to be going over each step in his mind—each step with which he was so familiar, only now, for the first time, he was living it for himself.

In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

What's freedom for? To know eternity.

Maybe God has a house. But not here.

Brooding on God, I may become a man.

I wake to sleep and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. The Waking

Is there a wisdom in objects? Few objects praise the Lord.

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.

guess sometimes the world's too much to live with and a body sort of has to turn away from it to rest.

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets." The former is easy enough, and is what even an accomplished loafer has to go through before he reaches the latter and more blissful state. It takes years of practice to relax sufficiently to be able to "just set." I'd learned it years ago. But

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

When you are washing the dishes, washing the dishes must be the most important thing in your life. Just as when you are drinking tea, drinking tea must be the most important thing in your life. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole world revolves—slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves

Stillness is the foundation of understanding and insight.