Quotes About Contemplation

On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

I'm a little bit too jumpy, when sometimes I should just sit back and let it unfold as it's supposed to and think about it before I jump in.

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower.

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.

We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far.

Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!

See a day, not with the open eyes, but with the open mind from far away.

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

To wonder is to be wise.

After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.

The key to wisdom is silent observation and reflection.

When you sweeten your knowledge and experience with your thoughts, it becomes your wisdom.

Wisdom is like the moonlight that quietly inspires you.

Starting to believe Life is just a sigh of Death.

As events beyond my control unfold. I go within to find peace.

What is your life and future worth? Ask yourself this question daily and your life will be enriched beyond measure.

The mind is the center of all attractions.

We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.