Quotes About Contemplation

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.