Quotes About Contemplation

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

A quantum of sweetness... what he meant was not just that a person should have a rightful share of whatever way you'd like to define sweetness, but also that the sweetness itself carries a special levy of contemplation of the infinitudes of sweetness that will go untasted, be forever unknown.

Because if you imagine yourself truly alone, islanded off from everybody else, you end up facing, whether you want to or not, a lot of gnarly, unsettling questions.

Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I'd ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I'd ever seen Hoyt alone.

There are times to think and times to lie fallow

La soledad es mucho más divertida si es opcional.

A vagrant thought crossed my mind.

But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay.

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

For many years, I was not mentally ready for marriage.

I have no great message to the world.

Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's metal that's sad, and there's metal that's exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

I love to go to Aksa Beach at midnight.

Concentration on impermanence and nonself leads to the insight of impermanence and nonself.

Instead of describing sitting meditation as the practice of concentration, looking deeply, and getting insight, I like to describe sitting as enjoying doing nothing.

Meditation is simply the practice of stopping and looking deeply. You do not need to sit to meditate. Anytime you are looking deeply—whether you are walking, chopping vegetables, brushing your teeth, or going to the bathroom—you can be meditating.

la práctica espiritual consiste más en reflexionar sobre las preguntas que en hallar respuestas.