Quotes About Contemplation

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgement.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Still waters run deep.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

In solitude, when we are least alone.