Quotes About Contemplation

away as he'd watched the Neanderthal

headlights swung over and past me. I ignored them, staring

His first time in South Africa, and there's a desolate beauty here, if one has the time to appreciate it.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?

Don't climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.

She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

The quieter the mind the louder the soul.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.