Quotes About Contemplation

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.

Purity" suggests a single, uncontaminated, element or quality. "Purity of heart," therefore, is an undeviating regard to God alone, who has become the center and focus of all one's thoughts, words and actions. Only by such purity of heart is the mind of man readied and prepared for the perfect concentration of mind, which is known as contemplation.

Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self

Talk to yourself at least once in a Day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.

Think of the lotus of the heart, with petals downwards, and running through it, the Sushumna; take in the breath, and while throwing the breath out imagine that the lotus is turned with the petals upwards, and inside that lotus is an effulgent light. Meditate on that.

Every time you do something good you have to stand back and breathe the moment in.

Imaginative writing, to me, is a way of discovering who we are and what we have to contend with; discovering what is out there and also what is not there. It enables me to think and explore and make something new with language while trying to make sense of our lives.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

I'm somewhat in my own cloud.

I've always been somewhat of a loner. I seem to take more alone time that the average person.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'