Quotes About Contemplation

My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season

Your life is a painting in a dark museum and sometimes you examine it closely

My dreaming thoughts go barefoot in the evening.

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I saw Guardiola as a mystical type of person. The way he dressed – always in black – he was sometimes very quiet, constantly analysing things, thinking things over: why we won, why we lost, why he'd lost the ball. Sometimes his obsessiveness was excessive.

The most intelligent of creatures," he offers softly, "often make the fewest sounds.

The most intelligent of creatures, often make the fewest sounds.

My garden is a place of commitment and neglect, of arrogance and humility. It is a place of taking stock and of deep silence—a place of contemplation. And so for me over time it has become a place of grace.

It was an unhurried pursuit. I did not want information. I wanted to be cultivated, and thus I read at leisure with lingering appreciation.

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

In meditation, you are calm and receptive. You are like an open door providing a kind of cross ventilation so that the air of divinity can move through you.

the longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it

Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

Inmóvil, absorto en una contemplación muda, yo permanecía aún con los ojos fijos en la figura de aquella mujer, cuya especial belleza había herido mi imaginación de un modo tan extraordinario.

Deseo ocuparme un poco del mundo que me rodea, pudiendo, una vez vacío, apartar los ojos de este otro mundo que llevo dentro de la cabeza.

Paseando por entre la indiferente multitud esta silenciosa tempestad de mi cabeza.

He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or maybe it was the other way around: When there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, "When I grow up, I am going to be happy.

He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, 'When I grow up, I am going to be happy.

Hebben de goden ons geen verstand gegeven om mee te denken en te oordelen?

The inner voice always had the hard questions.

Watching, letting the growth of wisdom guide him into silence