Quotes About Contemplation

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

My 'aloneness' is extremely valuable to me.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

with peach syrup, was still studying him carefully. Virginia

His gaze lingered upon Abigail

His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire. The

WAIT to finish my chores that mornin'. I needed to sneak off to my favorite log along the crik bank and find myself some thinkin' time. Too many things had been happening too fast; I was worried that my whole world was about to change. I didn't want it changed. I liked things jest the way they were, but if I

My favorite phrase those days, which I saw on a Family Dog poster, was "May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind," which came from a Captain Beefheart record.

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

Als ik niet meer zou kunnen vissen, zou ik een grote voorraad morfine aanleggen en diep het bos intrekken. Ik zou een afgelegen plek kiezen waar niemand ooit mijn lijk zou vinden en van waaruit ik een prachtig uitzicht zou hebben. Ik zou met mijn gezicht naar dat uitzicht gaan liggen - en mijn morfine nemen.

I wished I could imagine my life five years later, without me in it.

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

Just walk through him, I said, still deep in thought. and if you ever wanted to know how a moose works, just stop halfway and take a good look around.

The people to listen to are the ones who don't say very much

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

She thought of all she had learned about Harry tonight and hugged the intimate information to herself.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Les miroirs feraient bien de réfléchir un peu plus avant de renvoyer les images.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Each day in the mirror I watch death at work.

Better to run to the woods than the city, I thought. Here, there is the world to occupy the mind.