Quotes About Contemplation

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?

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When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret

It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177)

The light of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place": that is the simile which describes a yogi of one-pointed mind, who meditates upon the Atman.

Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart. (I. 192-93) HOW