Quotes About Contemplation

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

I was always inclined towards spiritualism but was afraid that I would become a sanyasin if I pursued it actively.

For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That is the way I deal with life and tough moments. I keep in touch with something bigger than me. And I connect with people who have an interior life - a connection with something bigger than them.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

In his own way, Leander is also steeped in spirituality.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.