Quotes About Contemplation

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Kurt left in the early morning to walk around Aberdeen in the pale light of dawn. The storm had passed, birds were chirping, and everything in the world seemed more alive. He walked around for hours thinking about it all, waiting for school to begin, watching the sun come up, wondering where his life was heading.

God will often require quick action, but he also requires stillness and reflection." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

MY SECRET IDENTITY IS The room is empty, And the window is open

While you sit Like a rain puddle in hell Knitting the socks Of your life.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

Sleeplessness is like metaphysics. Be there.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. So Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

They all forget that those who make the least noise do the most work. An engine that expends all its steam in whistling, has nothing left with which to turn wheels. Then let us cultivate silence. All that we can save in noise we gain in power.

There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn't neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.

Out of any two thoughts I have, one is devoted to death.

Lonesomeness. Morandi, Cezanne, it's all about lonesomeness. And Rothko. Especially Rothko.

When what you write about is what you see, what do you write about when it's dark? from "32

Lying there in the silence, you try to imagine what she could possibly mean. Kung Fu Guy is the pinnacle. How could anyone be more?

April 13, or a November 2? Living like this

She sat on a worn wooden bench, and read her book, and nibbled on her sandwich. The air was warm syrup, was literally thick with pollen and dandelion clocks and photons moving at the speed of light. An hour passed, then two. I never arrived at the park, wearing the only suit I never had, the one with a hole in the side pocket that no one ever saw.

Vigny, more secret,As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.

life could be wonder full if people would leave you alone...

Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in.

It's a puzzler, and I don't want to sound full of myself, but I may just be the Vyrus messiah." He shakes his head. "I don't know for sure. Have to meditate on that shit some more. Anyhoo.

And then my mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell: and for the first it recoiled baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf: it felt the one point where it stood the present; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant depth: and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos.