Quotes About Contemplation

Sit quietly for a few minutes and become mindful of your breath as it goes in and out. Then contemplate what you do when you're unhappy or dissatisfied and want to feel better. Even make a list if you want to. Then ask yourself: Does it work? Has it ever worked? Does it soothe the pain? Does it escalate the pain? If you're really honest, you'll come up with some pretty interesting observations.

It's as if you were in a spaceship going to the moon, and you looked back at this tiny planet Earth and realized that things were vaster than any mind could conceive and you just couldn't handle it, so you started worrying about what you were going to have for lunch.

la meditación nos ofrece la oportunidad de mantener una atención abierta y compasiva hacia todo lo que ocurre.

Hacer una pausa en lugar de llenar inmediatamente el espacio es una experiencia transformadora. Cuando esperamos, empezamos a conectar tanto con la inquietud fundamental como con la amplitud fundamental.

Annie - although she also knew that those who don't speak have to pay it off in thinking - was resolved on silence. Whatever happened, and after all she was obliged to see Mr brooks two or three times every day, though she by no means looked forward to it, feeling herself more truly alive when she could picture him steadily without seeing him - whatever happened, he needn't know how daft she was.

Dac? ar putea s? gândeasc?, inima s-ar opri.

Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sphere of art are announced by me in conversation.

He felt at peace only in the hour before dawn, when the darkness seemed to give way slowly to a mist, and it was at this hour that he would wake and sit by his window.

anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.

Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone.

Without thought he repeated some words which a boy had once chalked on the blackboard between lessons: 'A lump of coal is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore a lump of coal is better than God'. And then he traced his own name with his finger on the cracked and broken floor.

what think you of that, Nick, since you allwaies have your Head stuck in old Books? And I said nothing, for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Spellman often said that during his waking hours he was alone only twice each day, for 25 minutes each time:

it was "decidedly instructive" to contemplate "the ease with which one-half of the population of the country were suddenly deprived of the right of speech, the right to read, and one might almost say the right to think.

Adoptar movimientos lentos para toda la vida.

La agradable sensación de no tener que hablar, de dejar que pase el silencio general, mirando el mar u otra cosa, o incluso nada.

Perder así el continente ante un simple y estúpido sueño! ¿Y quién era él para hallar solo en tiempos sagrados sentido a la vida? ¡Basta de veleidades subjetivas! Le importaban demasiado las lucubraciones, que otros no podían siquiera permitirse.

Ansioso observaba sus propios pensamientos, siempre dispuesto a frenarlos. No quería olvidar ya nada más y repetía mentalmente los momentos recién pasados, como se repasan las palabras de una lengua extraña.

Mirar el cielo, ahí pasan las nubes, y pensar: "No, nunca voy a suicidarme"

appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation.

The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.

the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner.