Quotes About Contemplation

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

What happens if I do nothing?

Tell me what's the difference

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you've learned about the grand themes of life.

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

May the peace of God disturb you always.