Quotes About Contemplation

Generally we study too much and think too little.

Indeed poetry is bounded by silence on all sides, is almost defined by silence. from "Fallacies of Silence

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

In the hours of contemplation and solitude, and in the hours when he is in the midst of the world, the music is always there, he is always enjoying its harmony. ##

Es gibt nichts auf der Welt, was für kontemplative Menschen nicht erreichbar wäre, wenn sie nur wissen, wie man kontempliert. (S 162)

So wie das Sonnenglas das Herz der Sonne widerspiegelt, so spiegelt das kontemplative Herz die göttlichen Eigenschaften.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

sometimes you have to be alone to think and sometimes the best place for thinking is'int home.

They must visit Walden Pond," says Mrs. Chadwick, whipping out a clipboard from who knows where and making a note. Becca's mother is addicted to clipboards.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious. —Emily Dickinson

Under a shady tree can you feel the soft cool grass? can you feel it with your toes? we can sit here while it grows. Laurie Berkner

Set aside a specific time each day to meditate and tune into what your soul's wisdom has to share about the topic you are currently exploring. You can do this by simply connecting with your breath, softening your heart, and opening to whatever is revealed to you.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Il n'est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui vont suivre ; quelques-uns seuls savoureront ce fruit amer sans danger.

Todas las preocupaciones de su vida pasada le parecían insignificantes e intrascendentes en comparación con el carácter definitivo de la muerte. Era una sensación sobrecogedora que quitaba la facultad de pensar, de moverse, de dirigir las extremidades para avanzar hacia la siguiente eventualidad

Herricks to the Baptist chapel. Though they often strolled

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

I too have drunk and seen the spider

her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself

watching the world walk by in its curious shoes