Quotes About Contemplation

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) PATIENCE

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused on the person whose name stared at me from the paper). I had though OF each person as I drew but not ABOUT each person. I could just sit with them in a variation on stillness. I could hold them in prayer.

I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don't arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.

Don't just do something, sit there!

Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion.

Of all menaces to peace and quiet a visionary nun is the worst

Still reading, Miss St John? You read a lot, don't you? - It saves me from conversation.

He wrote how he "needed to be by himself, so he could miss her, to get some perspective

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.

I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.

By nature, looking is a disruptive task.

Sometimes these cogitations still amazeThe troubled midnight and the noon's repose.

And indeed there will be timeTo wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"

The value of your Creator should cause you to reconsider your own worth and value.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, Ã¢â'¬Â¦ at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Ever been in Jail? No. But I'm often alone.

A mo?e warto ?y? dalej, przetrwa? z?e chwile i pó?niej z pob?a?liwym zdumieniem przypomina? sobie te drobne okruchy kl?sk i dziwi? si?, ?e tyle mog?y znaczy? kiedy? i tak niewiele brakowa?o do ostatecznego kroku.

Zbudzi?em si? o tej mrocznej godzinie, która zaczyna beznadziejny jesienny dzie?. (...) To jest godzina podliczania kasy ?yciowej, godzina codziennego obrachunku. Kiedy? ludzie podsumowywali si? o pó?nocy, przed ci??kim za?ni?ciem, teraz bij? si? w piersi nad ranem, obudzeni ?oskotem zdychaj?cego serca.

Ma?o wychodzisz z domu - powiedzia?. - A tak. Jesie? mnie rozstraja. - Depresyjka? - Co? w tym rodzaju.