Quotes About Contemplation

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't have much to say.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?