Quotes About Contemplation

Of course, to execute an operation intelligently is not exactly the same thing as to follow its execution intelligently. The agent is originating, the spectator is only contemplating.

It is a subsidiary question how you conduct your imaginings, including your imagined monologues.

Well it seems to me

You can puzzle over lines all your life and never be satisfied with the meanings you get.

To commune with your heart and soul, be willing to go out of your mind.

Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.

Reading is soul work!

Llegó al río. Se detuvo a mirarlo. Imaginó un ojo gigantesco muy lejos de allí llorando el agua cristalina.

There are more puzzles in the shadow of a man walking under the sun than in all past, present, and future religions.

it was his custom to live for three days of the week on bread and water, and he had drunk this water with as much pleasure and as greedily (particularly when he was tired after praying or going on pilgrimage)

Toda la música tiende al silencio.

Inca de pe atunci, indepartat de la orice caldura si bucurie, ma ascundeam, ma linisteam pe mine insumi, in reveria lacoma, in solitara rumegare a lumii reintregite prin eu. Nu eram placut celorlalti, iar ura m-a intarcuit in singuratate. Singuratatea m-a facut mai trist si mai antipatic; tristetea mi-a strans inima si mi-a ascutit mintea. Firea mea deosebita m-a indepartat chiar de cei mai apropiati, iar despartirea m-a facut si mai deosebit.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Siederemo accanto un'altra volta, a spinger sassi col piede, e fantasie col pensiero.

I allowed silence its eloquence.

Bellacoglienza era rimasta sola, e si stringeva nel suo lettino. Era felice di essere sola. Dante Alighieri, quante parole gli aveva sentito mormorare, quante sciocchezze sussurrano gli uomini in quel momento. Era un poeta importante, le aveva detto qualcuno. Chissà.

Richard, having modestly but effectually scored the minimum number for the purpose, was in process of deciding whether a green or a canary-coloured Fluffy Hussy should be his boon companion for the rest of the day.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Find a quiet place to sit alone and in silence; bow your head and shut your eyes. Breathe softly, look with your mind into your heart; recollect your mind—that is, all its thoughts—and bring them down from your mind into your heart. As you breathe, repeat: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me," either quietly with your lips, or only in your mind. Make an effort to banish all thoughts; be calm and patient, and repeat this exercise frequently

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.