Quotes About Contemplation

words his answer made. "High, high thy thought

Rings out to meet me on my way.

O Raghava, be outwardly active but inwardly inactive, outwardly a doer but inwardly a non-doer, and thus play your part in the world.

Andrei walked a lot: this was the best and most pleasant state for him--to be walking, to move no matter where. Thoughts are simpler when you walk, and you can amuse them with what you see along the way

If you're being swept away, off somewhere, then why count the pebbles on the shore; they're on the shore, after all.

In Tibet, the word for meditation is gom, which means "to become familiar with one's self.

And yet, I am left with a kind of sadness that I can't quite explain.

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

When in doubt," she said, "do nothing.

And yet I feel so sad for some reason.

At the Konya bus station

Eén van de belangrijkste factoren voor geestelijke groei is immers tijd om na te denken en vrije tijd om uitdrukking te kunnen geven aan je gedachten.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.

There is great wisdom in asking, "How can I get out of this?" There is even greater wisdom in asking, "How did I get INTO this?

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been looking for. The fact that we have an ongoing dialogue with the universe is proof enough that there is "something" out there.

Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

And let the clean space shine in the hands of its captor the slow, elegant, daily drinker of the waves.

nightcap with Browne

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

David sat at his kitchen table, a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue in front of him. He was generally a beer-and-wine kind of guy, but on special occasions, he wanted something with a kick. He'd filled a Pokémon glass three fingers full

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.