Quotes About Contemplation

Mientras contemplábamos el fósil, sentí por un momento que su espiral me absorbía y me hacía retroceder cada vez más lejos en el tiempo hasta que el pasado se perdía en su centro.

You got to be praying all the time, or else you're just thinking about yourself.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Jane read her Anatomy, occasionally raising her eyes from a diagram to consider any human within sight in a dissecting sort of way which, Dot said, gave her the willies.

Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.

his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel him thinking to himself this is no place to die

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness...

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

A theologian is one who prays—and stays awake.

Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking. A

Annie, again, nodded. She wondered if, years from now, she would be unable to move her neck at all as a result of the repetitive, silent way that she had avoided the need for speech.

At night I count not the stars but the dark.

?if? is an essential way of making the Qur'?n penetrate you. It is not a mechanical, ritual act; it is an act of high spiritual and devotional importance. Only through ?if? can you read the Qur'?n in Prayers and ponder over its meaning while you stand in the presence of the Speaker. But apart from that, it makes the Qur'?n flow on your tongue, reside in your mind, dwell in your heart: it becomes your constant companion.

In the dense air, a gong reverberated. I wondered if it was to announce the end of my journey or the beginning of a new one.

Then someone finished a story, someone else paused to think of the right word, and a silence opened and spread through the brightly lit room.

You know what appeals to me about philosophy? Nobody wins.

He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

Being alone had one advantage: undisturbed time. She used it to read her Bible and study and pray. And think. In some ways, asking Jesus into her heart had been the easy part. Now she wanted to discern how His presence should affect her daily life.

Summer thought about spending the day inside that house with the old woman watching. Silently watching.

He seemed unaware of what was going on, stared out without hope or ambition, without worry, developing a quality devoid of qualities to get him through this life.

There is no truer meditation than music and no journey of discovery greater than that of looking within. A