Quotes About Contemplation

Empty yourself of everything," he said. "Let your mind rest at peace. Ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches. They grow and flourish and return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Practice your breathing and think upon this, Moirin.

I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.

slipped past them to return to the palace to engage in pointless speculation with Zariya.

and I didn't know if I was proud or indignant that he hadn't noticed.

Quizá las personas que están solas no tienen tiempo. El tiempo solo se adquiere mirándolo pasar por los demás.

Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

Silencing the mind was a greater task than stilling the body.

Watch the image, and let it go. Take note of it, know that it is there, and allow it to move away, across the landscape of your mind's eye. Allow yourself to see connections, Maisie. Then go to the case map, and plan your next move.

Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

five minutes. Then open your eyes—and your heart—and consider what needs to be done.

Listen and attend to the ear of your heart, Maisie. Before you leave, let us pray together.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

Deep winter and the night air is cold. So still, it feels like the world goes on forever in the darkness until you look up and the earth stops in a ceiling of stars. My head against my grandfather's arm, a blanket around us as we sit on the front porch swing. Its whine like a song. You don't need words on a night like this. Just the warmth of your grandfather's arm. Just the silent promise that the world as we know it will always be here.

Virtues can be developed through study and contemplation or, as this sutra suggests, through recognizing their presence in others. In other words, we should cultivate the habit of celebrating virtues wherever we recognize them. The more we rejoice in them, the sooner they will be ours.

focused attention results in deeper and subtler perceptions.

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

You must get outside yourself, and must begin to examine and understand yourself.

Mediation centred upon divine realities is the very essence and soul of prayer.

Dwell in thought upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see ; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

He who earnestly meditates first perceives a truth

It is in solitude only that a man can be truly revealed to himself, that he can come to understand his real nature, with all its powers and possibilities. The voice of the spirit is not heard in the hubbub of the world and amid the clamours of conflicting desires. There can be no spiritual growth without solitude.

Never underestimate the power of a long, protracted silence." Out

I would sit snug in this giant couch inside this giant apartment in the dark thinking, "how stupid was I? I made money when it was easy and then I lost it all.