Quotes About Contemplation

It was Muriel Spark, in her novel Memento Mori: "If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

the subject of boredom.

Write the story of a contemporary cured of his heartbreaks solely by long contemplation of a landscape

By the way, who invented Peace?

Monasticism is not about dogma; it is about God and an authentic spirituality. Its simple truths beckon to be rediscovered.

Prayer at once embraces our world and yet constantly measures and weighs it.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

And although you have mastered the words, you haven't yet mastered the blank spaces.

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

every movement needs to pause at times

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life.

As you go in, on the first floor, the back window

Some people say that, as summer approaches, we start to have weird ideas; we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.

The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and you will discover where.