Quotes About Contemplation

And working from the left to the right always, embrace the first petal of the holy rose,

Might we consider boredom as not only necessary for our life but also as one of its greatest blessings? A gift, pure and simple, a precious chance to be alone with our thoughts and alone with God?

If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.

Once, when I was describing to a friend from Syracuse, New York, a place on the plains that I love, a ridge above a glacial moraine with a view of almost fifty miles, she asked, "But what is there to see?" The answer, of course, is nothing. Land, sky, and the ever-changing light.

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.

I do not know Whether I spoke or heard The word That fills all silence.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.

the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.

She wanted them to live in union with God and with one another. Silence was at the root of that union, for God was 'the friend of silence':

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.

Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

Two sure ways to fail: Think and never do or do and never think.

We staying out here today?" Hi rubbed his chin as if considering the proposition, his Bolton Prep blazer flipped inside-out with the lining exposed. "Mr. Terenzoni might not be willing to yell his lesson plan out the window.

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Suck eggs, I thought.

But I don't know the

smile fondly down into the cradle before returning to the farmyard. Grandpa Muldoon followed him, pausing in the doorway to remind the girls they were now in charge of the little ones. Then he closed the door quietly behind him and Jenny and Claudia returned to their contemplation of the babies, lying head

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

The man on the porch seemed to have brought his own clouds.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

Détaché de ses amarres, son cœur flottait à la dérive dans la ciel.