Quotes About Contemplation

The path to wisdom is to dress up and stay home.

All the best gods are made of stone and say nothing.

walls in my office, bedroom,

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

Anton Webern moved composition to the brink of silence.

La non-action, c'est la respiration de l'action. C'est comme le silence après le bruit. C'est s'efforcer, dans bien des moments de son quotidien, de ne pas passer tout de suite à autre chose, à une autre action. Décider de prendre le temps, non pas de réfléchir mais de ressentir, de se laisser doucement envahir par le sillage de ce que l'on vient de faire, et la présence de l'instant.

Victoria», en este privilegiado puesto de observación de nuestra existencia. Nos esforzamos por llegar a comprometernos

dawn was thinking about breaking, at the stage where it was rolling about under the sheets after its alarm had gone off, weighing up the pros and cons of getting out of bed.

Contemplation that does not foster action is no better than a broken wing.

In her brain she runs a computer program to evade dooms no one has even considered. There's nothing she hasn't thought of, and thought of and thought of, poor woman.

ja jos koko ajan ajattelen kuolemaa se ei yllätä minua koskaan

Ich legte mich auf den Boden und hörte die Welt ihre Runden drehn im Gleichschritt der Verwesung.

Güzel bir söz vard?r: hiçbir ÅŸey. Hiçbir ÅŸey düÅŸünme. BaÅŸbakan? düÅŸünme, Katolikleri de düÅŸünme. Küvette aÄŸlayan, terliklerine kahve damlayan o palyaçoyu düÅŸün.

Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the nature, power, quality, substance and virtues thereof, as also the knowledge of whole Nature, and it doth instruct us concerning the differing and agreement of things amongst themselves, whence it produceth its wonderful effects, by uniting the virtues of things through the application of them one to the other.

Floating down the river, I could not keep my eyes off the Potala; I knew the Dalai Lama was on the roof looking at me through his telescope. On

But I have at least learned to contemplate the events of life with tranquillity and not let myself be flung to and fro by circumstances in a sea of doubt.

Sempre invejei os tibetanos pela simplicidade da sua fé pois toda a minha vida tenho procurado respostas. Embora tenha aprendido a forma de meditar enquanto vivi na Ásia, a resposta final para o enigma da vida nunca me foi revelada. Mas aprendi pelo menos a contemplar os eventos da vida com tranquilidade e a não permitir que as circunstâncias me façam derivar de um lado para o outro num mar de dúvidas.

I looked at this polite little sentence & sat crying on the bed —

It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we contemplated any fate which did not touch us directly.

Is my mind closed? No. It's wide open. I'm always waiting.

More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.

People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter.

So often we see solitary contemplation as simply the correct way to engage with nature. But it is always a political act, bringing freedom from the pressures of other minds, other interpretations, other consciousnesses competing with your own.