Quotes About Contemplation

A lone walker is both present and detached from the world around, more than an audience but less than a participant.

A pair of glasses on which the temperature and chance of rain pops up or someone's trying to schedule me for a project or a drink is not going to help with reveries about justice, meaning, and the beautiful deep marine blue of nearly every dusk.

A desk is no place to think on the large scale.

Adulthood is made up of a prudent anticipation and a philosophical memory that make you navigate more slowly and steadily.

the way wandering on foot can lead to the wandering of imagination

Introspection is often portrayed as an indoor, solitary thing, the monk in his cell, the writer at her desk.

Books are solitudes in which we meet

The random, the unscreened, allows you to find what you don't know you are looking for, and you don't know a place until it surprises you. Walking is one way of maintaining a bulwark against this erosion of the mind, the body, the landscape, and the city, and every walker is a guard on patrol to protect ineffable.

sadness we did not have to work on. It came, as sadness usually does, as soon as I sat down and began to listen. The small press had a correspondingly

Thought that is worth calling thought has no mercy on itself, that is the dreadful proof of its quality.

Reginald Hill

Jeho nedostatkem nebylo jeho konání, ale jeho ml?ení.

Je vd??ný, že se nikdo nevzteká, a odpoledne opravuje pal?áky. NÄ›kolik muž? ho pÃ…â"¢i tom ml?ky sleduje. HorÅ¡í by bylo, myslí si, kdyby z té naÅ¡í jeskynÄ› už nikdo nevylezl. PÃ…â"¢ece jenom je trochu uklid?ující sledovat, jak jim roste odvaha jenom proto, že se dívají, že nÄ›co dÄ›lám.

I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?

Perhaps rather than concerning ourselves with trying to form a relationship with God, we should instead become fully aware of the relationship that already exists.

Lo que me interesa señalar en el bellísimo final de «Trön...» es algo que encontraremos en muchos otros textos de Borges: la lectura como defensa. La quietud a la que alude la hipálage está en el acto de leer; todo queda en suspenso; la vida, por fin, se ha detenido.

No puedo decir nada, salvo leer y recordar frases ajenas.

An idle, wandering mind is not the devil's playground, as the Puritans believed, but a garden of rejuvenation, growth, and contemplation.

Hom semper aliud, fortna aliud cgitat.

Richard A. LaFleur

And, Freedom, was I free?

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.