Quotes About Contemplation

the pilgrim way only focuses and intensifies our experience, which, when we were home, was diffused by distraction, responsibility, and busyness. Unless we are persons of prayer and uncommon contemplation, our daily lives routinely detour deeper thoughts and a quiet looking at the world around us.

He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.

When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

De veras no quiere que lo llevemos? —Es una caminata de diez minutos. Y en esta noche maravillosa, caminar es un imperativo. Los tres se quedaron un momento contemplando las estrellas. —Cada una de ellas es un mundo —dijo Hagen, mirándolas. —O un espantoso caos —dijo Clements, con un bostezo—. Temo que sean un cadáver fluorescente y que nosotros estemos dentro.

My life is far too quiet these days.

Había descubierto que montar en bici me permitía pensar sin preocuparme de que alguien se percatara de mis muecas y expresiones.

Solitude opens all closed doors, even those nailed shut.

I felt argument coiling in my belly.

I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.

Most days weren't clear when you were in them.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea. Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle of black boulders. No one saw we were there and everyone who had ever been there stood silently in air. Where else do we ever have to go, and why?

I wondered stony afternoons owning all their vastness.

If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?

why are we so monumentally slow?

TO do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination without distraction. -Thomas A. Edison.

supreme object of your meditation be Truth. At the outset, meditation must be distinguished from idle

To know silence perfectly is to know music.

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.

And if, through this desire of ours to say something, or do something, you feel that you must open your mouth, then do this: choose one word or a little phrase which well expresses your love for him; and then go on repeating it in peace, without trying to form thoughts, motionless in love before God who is love.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.