Quotes About Contemplation

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

I use plane rides to write down my thoughts. Such as figuring out radial distance plots for Mars missions.

The night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

Debería haber pensado antes en tomar un taxi, porque no hay como desplazarse en un vehículo manejado por otro para salir de uno mismo.

Cuando uno lo ha abandonado todo, puede decirse que le queda la contemplación del vacío.

To let myself be, naked under the sun. To create internal silence. I have pursued this goal through all of life's twists and turns, almost like an idée fixe. This is the small and alarming idea that stands out in the midst of all other ideas and raises the volume of psychic noise, which is already quite considerable.

I am thinking, yes, about mute thunder. The honey of twilight.

Tea should be taken in solitude...

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

High thoughts are profound.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his Notebooks: "It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places in which Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you may find really marvelous ideas.

silence surrounds me almost audibly

As a contemplative man I am an arrant realist, so that I am capable of desiring nothing from all the things that present themselves to me, and of wishing nothing added to them. I make no sort of distinction among objects beyond whether they interest me or not.42

The training consists: first of all in systematic exercises for eliminating critical attention, thus producing a vacuum in consciousness.

As an introvert he had a better relation to ideas than to things.

The goal of contemplating the processes depicted in the mandala is that the yogi shall become inwardly aware of the deity. Through contemplation, he recognizes himself as God again, and thus returns from the illusion of individual existence into the universal totality of the divine state.

Saeed didn't need to answer. Instead, he turned to the

He'd lowered

abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds

However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result