Quotes About Contemplation

W?a?ciwie wszystko mi jedno. Jestem wolnym cz?owiekiem, który zawis? wysoko nad miastem i z oddali z ?agodnym zdumieniem przygl?da si? dziwnym ludziom oraz ich dziwnym poczynaniom.

I'll start dying meticulously wisely optimistically without wasting time

Silence speaks when words can't.

Silence is true wisdom's reply.

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree

We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I: As I am so will you be...

I had started trying—it for the first time, really—it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the edges of it, barely acknowledging even to myself what I was doing, like a kid picking at a scab but afraid to look.

Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I; As I am now so will you be.…

figure out what to do here.

Selena had been singing along, absently, gazing into nowhere. She looked at us like she was trying to work out who we were, before she got up

years of observing from the outside (one gets into the habit of being oneself)—

None of them say anything. They keep their eyes closed. They lie still and feel the world change shape around them and inside them, feel the boundaries set solid; feel the wild left outside, to prowl perimeters till it thins into something imagined, something forgotten.

course, he didn't actually want her to go, nor did she care to join him. The tension in her shoulders eased a little, realizing he wanted her to say no. Pretending to contemplate his invitation, Zoe relaxed

Zoe swallowed, wishing she hadn't started the list on her

He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or some slowly developing suburb— to be alone and carefully build a life in which he might be able to begin, at some point, to think about what to do about himself.

my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive

Sam looked at the sky to see if there were a lot of stars. There seemed to be a normal amount of stars.

I'd like to disappear one day...I get the feeling sometimes that I can do that. It's like there's some place I really want to go to, and I'm not sure where, but I can still go. I think I'd really like that. I'd sit down one afternoon. I'd say, "Okay now, Susan, time to go." Clasp my hands or something. Then I'd do it. I'd just be gone then. No one would know. I wouldn't even know.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

the desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.