Quotes About Contemplation

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

O'Rouke'un orada bir bira içerken olanlar?n bir muhasebesini yapmaya çal??t?m. Ä°ÅŸler kar???kt?. Sokrates intihar etmiÅŸti... Ya da öyle olduÄŸunu söylüyorlard?. Ä°sa öldürülmüÅŸtü. Nietzsche ise delirmiÅŸti. EÄŸer yukar?da biri varsa bile kimsenin bunu bilmesini istemiyor gibiydi.

With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.

Una vez más, la nada parecía destino hospitalario para un demoledor de sus propias certezas. La nada era una prórroga, una tregua, una hipoteca.

Estas cosas si las pensás, no las hacés, y si las hacés, ¿Ya para qué pensás?

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies.

I'm more preoccupied with furnishing my head than the place where I live. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones.

What of God's silence? I think it over. I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate time itself. As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by a river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness.

It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I

It's a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.

Ein ewiges rätsel will ich bleiben mir und anderen

That's the kind of thing, if you get to thinking about, that could wake you in the middle of night. I didn't want my nights to have any middles.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.