Quotes About Contemplation

Duty uncontaminated by desire leads to inner peacefulness and increased effectiveness. This is the secret art of living a life of real achievement!

and closed his eyes, thinking about it.      

stomach as he stood to the side.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind.

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue. The mountains are mighty patient, Buddha-man, I said out loud, and took a drink.

To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love it as though only it mattered and existed.

Stare deep into the world before you as if it were the void: innumerable holy ghosts, buddhies, and savior gods there hide, smiling. All the atoms emitting light inside wavehood, there is no personal separation of any of it. A hummingbird can come into a house and a hawk will not: so rest and be assured. While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.

Ä°kimiz de s?rtüstü yatm?? tavana bak?yor, Tanr?'n?n hayat? bu kadar kederli ve gönülsüz k?larken neyle uÄŸraÅŸt???n? düÅŸünüyorduk.

This is the beginning and the end of the world right here. Look at those patient Buddhas lookin at us saying nothing.

I felt like telling Japhy everything I thought but I knew it didn't matter and moreover he knew it anyway and silence is the golden mountain.

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? I did.

Believe in the holy contour of life