Quotes About Contemplation

Sitting still is a way of falling in love with the world and everyone in it.

As it is common to hear now, when one is in love, anything one sees reminds one of that love - our feelings remake the world in a secular equivalent of the faith that sees the hand of God in everything - so I began to find that when one is thinking on a theme, everything seems to reflect on it.

This road No one on it As autumn ends —BASHO, near Kyoto, weeks before his death

Everywhere, in some lights, is a Lonely Place, just as everyone, at moments, is a solitary. Everyone sometimes dances madly when alone, or thumbs through secrets in a drawer. Everyone, at some times, is a continent of one.

La luna era ormai alta alta nel cielo, s'era rimpicciolita e pareva non volesse più aver che fare col mondo, tutta assorta nella contemplazione di quello che ci stava al di là. Al mondo, pareva che ormai mostrasse solo il sedere; e, da quel sederino d'argento, pioveva giù una luce grandiosa, che invadeva tutto.

Ogni anno l'autunno gli porta di questi sentimenti. Bisogno di silenzi, di solitudine, di ricordi. Bisogno di dormire. Di ricapitolarsi. Bisogno d'interiorità. La terra lo chiama a sé e lo invita a raccogliersi.

task not unlike coming to grips with the Holy Ghost.' There

From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was...

Parece necessário interrogar-se sobre essa ausência de interrogação.

Il n'y a pas eu de jour dans ma vie, si plein et si heureux fût-il de la présence des êtres ou d'un être, et de mon adhésion riche et exubérante au monde immédiat, où je n'ai songé à la solitude, où je me sois arrangé pour lui faire la libation de quelques minutes, quand ca n'eût été que dans les cabinets, une cabine téléphonique, une salle de bains, un couloir où je m'attardais un instant plus qu'il ne convient à l'animal social.

For us, nature's final accomplishment is contemplation, becoming aware, and a way of living in harmony with nature.

breathe the intellect which embraces all things as if it were the surrounding air....

We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him.

There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

I didn't want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.