Quotes About Contemplation

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

Death is not only a passing on but a time for everyone else to truthfully reflect on one's life.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

I try as much as possible to take a moment every so often, pause, and enjoy the journey.

We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

I'm usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.

I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.

I like to get in tune with my self and really give myself the time to just be.

Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.