Quotes About Contemplation

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.