Quotes About Contemplation

The more you think, the more time you have.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Information work is thinking work.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time