Quotes About Contemplation

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

Know everything. Say nothing.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

followed her outside, deeply moved.

there in bed, wondering why she hadn't moved out

quietly. She didn't like being reminded

somewhere. Then he turned serious.

sake…. What are you doing? …

just want to be alone to watch the

questions. "What did you see

happened. And yet, why did she feel

But when I gave bl0w jobs to my ex, I secretly hated it. What's pleasant about sucking on a stiff, veiny appendage that spurts pee and sperm?

The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts.

He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

I prefer the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's more bare, more hollow. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so—this has always been my dream—so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while the children sleep.

Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not. The

More often than not, it seems that people are having thoughts, though not really thinking about what they're thinking about—at least not in an effective way that resolves, advances, or manages the content.