Quotes About Contemplation

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

She never was able to surrender a feeling without a review of its peaks and low points.

Where do you see yourself in ten years' time?" she asked. My answer: "Not sure, but maybe on a beach reading a really good mystery. Not a murder mystery, but the kind where the narrator has to find out what year it is and why he was even born .

Why are you reading that book? Are you in doubt about something?

I like to jot down thoughts and ideas as I tread life's garden, for then sometimes when I am weary I can turn a leaf and find what my mood was on a certain day and that changes a train of thought and brings back sunshine.

I look suspiciously at the half-empty glass in my hand.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

You listen to the silence drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.

Tal vez sea cierto, o tal vez no. Porque ahora, al mirar a mi alrededor en la alfombra, siento una certeza: está aquí.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

In a way that starry night sky is a mirror in which we see our own faces.

Tu nous domines de silence, Tu nous hantes d'éternité.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Experience seems to come from a distance.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

I put an apple on my table. Then I put myself inside this apple. What tranquility!

Étale étale, la mer intérieure Puisse-t-elle demeurer étale… Un seul navire répondra à tout ...

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

[Charles] Sumner's mind had reached the calm of water which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contained nothing but itself.