Quotes About Contemplation

just as human doing does not place a demand upon the actions of God, so, too, human gazing on the visible objects of creation and history does not deliver a right conception of the divine.

Eastern styles of meditation do not require that you create mental stillness by blocking out your thoughts. Instead, they suggest that you observe your thought processes in a detached way.

must look at you with the eyes of David in Psalm 139:

States should invest in science so that the future can be calmly contemplated.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

Quando hai un problema fermati, fermati, fermati. Ascoltalo e cerca di trovare la risposta dentro di te. Perchè c'è. Dentro di te c'è qualcosa che ti tiene insieme, che ti aiuta, c'è una vocina. Ascoltala.

Fermati ogni tanto. Fermati e lasciati prendere dal sentimento di meraviglia davanti al mondo

Le stazioni sono vere, sono specchi delle città nel cui cuore sono piantate. Le stazioni stanno vicine alle cattedrali, alle moschee, alle pagode o ai mausoleo. Una volta arrivati lì, si è arrivati davvero.

Die) Überzeugung, dass es nur einen wahren grossen Meister gibt: jenen, den jeder Mensch in sich trägt. Wenn des Nachts die Stille so vollkommen ist, dass sie zu dröhnen scheint, steht er auf, entzündet eine Kerze und setzt sich ein paar Stunden lang davor. Wozu? "Um zu versuchen, ich selbst zu sein", hat er mir einmal geantwortet. "Um die Melodie zu hören.

Look at the stars," said Tim. "Don't you ever wonder what they're for?" The Night was an open book of constellations. "They're for the same as everything else, "said Sam. They're just for themselves." The stars silently agreed.

for Aristotle contemplation is the highest good that a life can achieve. It is the good he associates with the gods.

Trout Fishing in America.

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

It is part of my duty as a decent member of my local hamlet to mow the grass in front of the church. It's a pleasant little task and mowing is a favorite activity of mine; it gives me a lot of pleasure to make the churchyard look tidy. I sometimes pause at the grave of someone or other and speculate what he might have been like when he was alive, but gravestones don't tell much.

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

When you see the ocean and the infinite, it empties your mind.

I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean.

I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

Once I found out that I had officially been entered in the Royal Rumble, I took some time to myself to sit down and try to comprehend what was going to take place later that night. I couldn't.

I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.