Quotes About Contemplation

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

Turn your car into a monastery.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

examine is an interesting word. It's not a matter of looking and seeing—"Now I've got it!"—but a process of examination and contemplation that leads into being able to relax with insecurity or edginess or restlessness. Much joy comes from that.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

if there's never any pause—we will never be able to relax.

The practice is compassionate inquiry into our moods, our emotions, our thoughts.

But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.

Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess.