Quotes About Contemplation

In meditation there must be a staying of the thoughts upon the object. A man who rides quickly through a town or village: he minds nothing. But an artist who is looking on a curious piece views the whole portraiture of it, he observes the symmetry and proportion, he minds every shadow and color.

The reason why God has given us a thinking faculty, is that we may think on his Name. When our thoughts run out in vain things, we should think with ourselves thus: Did God give us this talent to misemploy? Did he give us thoughts that we should think of everything but him?

Rest here with me a moment," he said, "and let the world go to hell.

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.

Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.

And I, who claim to know so much more, isn't it possible that even I have missed the very spring within the spring? Some say that we will never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

You not only live it; but you watch yourself living

Conservai sempre a vossa mente nas estrelas, mas deixai os vossos olhos verem os vossos passos para não cairdes na lama, por causa da vossa contemplação de cima. Lembrai-vos do paradoxo divino, que ao mesmo tempo que o Universo não existe, ele existe. Lembrai-vos sempre dos dois Pólos da Verdade: o Absoluto e o Relativo. Tomai cuidado com as Meias-Verdades.

being cleansed in the spacelike meditative equipoise,

Observe the defects of a householder's life and return soon." When the prince heard

Remain in equipoise on this spacelike nature, my son.

recite O? ?? H?? three times.

I shall allow my mind to fade into space.

Following this, I set up residence in the palace of silver parasols and spent my time pursuing study, reflection, and meditation.

If relapsed, meditate on it as the very remedy.

The meditation session divides into three—preparatory practices, the main practice, and the concluding practice.

I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything .

You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you'd made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I'd vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn't have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.

Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once they had time to cool off.

I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk

Silence is not something you do. Silence is something that comes to you and that Silence is a space of wonder.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?