Quotes About Contemplation

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

He was an indifferent Christian but the afternoon called for gratitude and belief.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Él siempre estaba allí, contemplando el frío brillo de las estrellas, admirando el increíble enjambre nebuloso de un racimo de estrellas, como una conglomeración gigante de luciérnagas sorprendidas en pleno vuelo y detenidas para siempre.

He seemed so to Hari Seldon, certainly. Seldon stopped his morning constitutional to watch him.

I don't bother with the outside myself. The last time I was in the open was three years ago. You see it once, you know and that's all there is to it.

I never thought that, in the sense of believing it. It is merely an alternative to be considered.

there's been more drinking than thinking, and more wooing than doing

más vale tener planteados problemas sin solucionar que no plantearse problemas.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

How exuberant and boisterous the universe is, Alma! It turns and turns, and the only constant is everything changes. It is a mystery we can only appreciate out of stillness. I'm living through a very interesting stage. My spirit contemplates the changes in my body with fascination, but this contemplation is not from a distance, but from within. My spirit and my body are together in this process.

La vida es un ruido entre dos grandes silencios

Meditation helps.

Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.

Apropos of the observatory

Alma was so solitary a person that she had never realized how lonely she was.

Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.

One of my favorite teachers is Osho, mainly because he liked to push people's buttons just to get them to think and live outside of their comfort zone.

I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.