Quotes About Contemplation

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

I envision the possible scenarios, starting with the worst first. I like to do it that way so I can end on the happy thought and aim for it.

expected—"  He inhaled a deep breath.  "We only

Sawtooth slumps into his deck chair and stares up at the sky. It's a drunken sky, the stars hiccupping light. Great gusty clouds go spinning past the moon. The bright planets feel like pinpricks to Sawtooth's old eyes.

God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

Who will sit on the porch with him then?

She had always scorned Hamlet, just a little. Five acts of vacillation, scene after scene of contemplation instead of action, putting on

often thought the same thing, but

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. "Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950).

Wer Meinungen von sich gibt, darf sich auf Widersprüchen nicht ertappen lassen. Wer Gedanken hat, denkt auch zwischen den Widersprüchen.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

Ask yourself before entering into a spousal argument: Is this really worth it?

Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you will always be able to make new discoveries in it and find things in it that you didn't notice before, even though you have read it many times.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

I am an atheist who says his prayers.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

walking on boulevards and beaches, examining postcards, studying angles of light and shadow

Megan? Aren't you going to say anything?" her mother asked. Yeah, I'm gonna say something , Megan thought, standing up.

Do you sometimes feel you might be painted onto the world, find yourself standing like an angel in a Dutch interior, with nothing to do?