Quotes About Contemplation

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would never see how everything worked together.

He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns.

Rather than seeing a contest between druid and Christian, I see a kinship between stone chapel and stone circle.

your ears and put them over your mouth," Butcher says. "Learn to listen, see, smell, and absorb everything around you without speaking your thoughts first. If

Here's a thought. What if we were to . 

When I am outside in the fresh air my ideas take a higher direction," Napoleon said. "I cannot understand how some men can work successfully if they are always inside, beside the fireplace, without communication with the sky."30

Heaven to be the first one up and to eat breakfast all alone.

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole.

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I desire to lie in the dust,

I want to lie in the dust,

Un monde est absurde dans la mesure où le contemplatif, l'ermite et le moine, y apparaissent comme un paradoxe ou un "anachronisme". Or le moine est dans l'actualité précisément parce qu'il est intemporel : nous vivons à l'époque de l'idolâtrie du "temps", et le moine incarne tout ce qui est immuable, non par sclérose ou par inertie, mais par transcendance.

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

You engage, and then you wait and see.

Gerçek dinin ölüm üzerine bir meditasyon de?il, hayat üzerine bir meditasyon olmas? gerekti?ini (oradan) ö?rendim.

The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

L-am intrebat de ce citeste la nesfarsit pe marii ganditori ai lumii devreme ce nu vrea sa publice nimic? "Pentru ca nu vreau decat sa inteleg. Nu vreau sa mor bou." a fost raspunsul. Cei mai multi dintre noi traim fara sa fi inteles nimic. Sau, mai rau inca, fara sa ne fi propus sa intelegem ceva.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Why are you so quiet?" he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about.