Quotes About Contemplation

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in that fashion, he did not know that it is possible to think better, more accurately, more clearly.

There was nothing more to leave behind. In a way, I had walked the roji , the Zen term for "dewy path," which represents the transition from the outside burning world of dust and passions to the contemplative spiritual world of a Japanese teahouse.

Think before you do! Don't ever be in haste to make a mistake, for that can be a big mistake! Think before you do!

The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.