Quotes About Contemplation

I insist on a lot of time being spent thinking, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life." —Warren Buffett

El silencio es el lienzo en blanco, el marco, sobre lo que trabajas; y no tratas de ahogarlo.

The greatest fallacy: looking continually for an answer in things that are unanswerable.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

Concentration is uniting the mind with one place, object, or idea for spiritual awakening.

Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

A lot of folks would do more prayin' if they could find a soft spot for their knees.

A candle is a prayer in action.

You can travel without moving.

parties without a Jameson are like Zen without the echoing yawn.

The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds.

Socrates was quoted as saying "The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare.

But it will work if you'll get it down on the inside of you! Into your heart! The way you do that is not by just reading it and forgetting it. But by meditating upon it. By thinking upon it. By feeding upon it. Until it becomes a part of your inward man.

This is the evening of the two-fisted prayer

without thought, for you are not ready for thought

As Catholic mystic Thomas Merton observed, "Everything that is, is holy." To see the truth of this statement is the beginning of an abundant life.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

This is the summit of contemplation, and no art can touch it Blue, so blue, the far-out archipelago and the sea shimmering, shimmering No art can touch it, the mind can only try to become attuned to it To become quiet, and space itself out, to become open and still, unworlded Knowing itself in the diamond country, in the ultimate unlettered light. A High Blue Day on Scalpay

Amen and amen, selah. Omeyn, seloh.

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

unsure how to respond. "But I guess we knew that without strutting up here to have a look. Just thought you ought to see it." Norm walked away,

What is needed is only a pausing of the heart so the spirit can take wing and be lifted toward the infinite.

the paper on my lap. Slowly