Quotes About Contemplation

So the reader can imagine my state of mind when

Consider that thinking is time-consuming and generally a great waste of energy

wrote in front of a window overlooking trees:

values unscheduled meditation.

Now being lazy, considering laziness as an asset, and eager to free up the maximum amount of time in my day to meditate and read

Pavese spiegava che veniva là non per coraggio, perché lui di coraggio non ne aveva; e nemmeno per spirito di sacrificio. Veniva perché se no non avrebbe saputo come passar le serate; e non tollerava di passar le serate in solitudine.

Aportarán también su profundo y obstinado amor por el ocio, por la contemplación, por una vida solitaria y apartada, y el deseo de una época en el que haya un amplio espacio para los que no tienen ganas de hacer nada.

No a todo el mundo le hace bien la soledad. A ti no te hace bien porque piensas cosas absurdas. A mí, en cambio, la soledad me gusta y me hace bien.

You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy?

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it

She did not move. And about her the entire house, the street, seemed to encourage her, seemed to consider this motionlessness natural.

Sentence Completions to Facilitate the Art of Living Consciously

This entails the choice to see, to think, to be aware, to send the light of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being.

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.

The struggle, if it were one, need not be described.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...

They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself. Men sometimes are so, said her husband.

It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.

It was one of those moments - which sometimes occur only at the interval of years - when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his minds age.

no better occupation than to look down into the garden.

a bookworm-one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries. He has no inward fountain of ideas... - Earth's Holocaust, Hawthorne