Quotes About Contemplation

They were contemplating moving into another house or, more exactly, loudly saying to each other, so as to be overheard by anyone who might be listening, that they were contemplating moving, when all at once the fiend was gone, as happens with the moskovett , that bitter blast, that colossus of cold air that blows on our eastern shores throughout March, and then one morning you hear the birds, and the flags hang flaccid, and the outlines of the world are again in place.

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But I want to make sure of our whereabouts and whenabouts,' said Van. 'It is a philosophical need.

The fatal gesture passed like the tail of a falling star across the blackness of the contemplated crime.

Así aislada, a esa distancia, la visión adquiría un sutilísimo encanto que me hacía precipitar hacia mi solitaria gratificación.

my own company being intolerable, since it excited me too much and to no purpose

The greater part of him was in a quite different place, while only an insignificant portion of it was wandering, perplexed.

One Cincinnatus was counting, but the other Cincinnatus had already stopped heeding the sound of the unnecessary count which was fading away in the distance; and, with a clarity he had never experienced before – at first almost painful, so suddenly did it come, but then suffusing him with joy, he reflected: why am I here? Why am I lying like this? And, having asked himself these simple questions, he answered them by getting up and looking around.

I want you to concentrate. You are going to die in a moment. The hereafter for all we know may be an eternal state of excruciating insanity. You smoked your last cigarette yesterday. Concentrate. Try to understand what is happening to you

Oh, 'philosophy.' You know. When you try to imagine a mirok [small pink potato] without the least reference to any you have eaten or will eat.

When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the act of attention might lead to our sinking involuntarily into the history of that object.

intentado concentrarnos.

The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in

Sea Calm How still, How strangely still The water is today. It is not good For water To be so still that way.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

A foolish man is always doing,Yet much remains to be done.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

One may know the world without going out of doors.One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.The further one goes, the less one knows.Therefore the sage knows without going about,Understands without seeing,And accomplishes without any action.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion

I paused, allowing the

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

If a Jesus walked on the water, couldn't a Dildough fly through the air?

This story has no point but stillness itself...