Quotes About Contemplation

Solitude is sanity.

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

In times of solitude, we are still to hear the voice of God.

Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master?

Wisdom comes from introspection.

Deliberate often - decide once.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?

I don't like to be in the spotlight. I like to just chill and observe other people.

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

I don't very much care for the spotlight.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.

I like to make a tour round the pitch before games to look at the architecture, the colours in the stadium, the sky, to feel the atmosphere growing.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.

I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Everyone says I should really savour the last year, play as much as possible, really soak everything in. I'd most like to sit on the bench, or, even better, in the stands.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.