Quotes About Contemplation

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself.

Aaron was uncomfortable and a little afraid. This, he thought, is how God might pray to his God.

Here it is night: I stay at the Summit Temple. Here I can touch the stars with my hand. I dare not speak aloud in the silence For fear of disturbing the dwellers of Heaven.

Before my bed, the moon is shining bright, I think that it is frost upon the ground. I raise my head and look at the bright moon. I lower my head and think of home.

STAYING THE NIGHT AT A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE The high tower is a hundred feet tall, From here one's hand could pluck the stars. I do not dare to speak in a loud voice, I fear to disturb the people in heaven.

We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.

Raising awareness. It's a good thing. Makes people think twice.

Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one,

There were moments when she thought she might survive. And there were other moments when she would catch herself thinking about her life as if it was a party she couldn't wait to leave.

single spotlight revealed Alice's

dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when

Cecilia sipped her tea and imagined herself going back through time and putting that Khrushchev in his place.

She enjoys thinking deliciously shocking thoughts from time to time.

word and its implications from every angle.

Who knew what she would have done really;

Slow was certainly... slow... but also it was quite... lovely.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Approaching human life from the neutral sea was beginning to make me more appreciative.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

You feel the same hum at a Cohen concert that you do at a church or a synagogue, a feeling that emanates from the realization that the words and tunes you're about to hear represent the best efforts we humans can make to capture the mysteries that surround us, and that by listening and closing your eyes and singing along, you, too can somehow transcend.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?