Quotes About Contemplation

He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened.

For as long as you direct your search to the forms around you, you will not attain your goal even after aeon upon aeon; whereas, by contemplating your inner awareness, you can achieve Buddhahood in a single flash of thought.

Look within! The secret is inside you.

God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

There is no hiding the fact that in some ways I am dissatisfied with God.

I lay in my bed for I don't know how long doing my best to work things out, and my best certainly wasn't good enough.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

He simply knew his own mind and found it company enough.

Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail.

Kilimanjaro West THREE DAYS HE HAD been watching the rain. Still he could not understand it.

And?" "Ah." She was not certain whether it was the room's heartbeat she was hearing, or her own. "Would you like to sit down?" Her voice sounded as if coming from kilometers away as she said, "No. Thank you.

Imagine the beams of the Panversal Radiance striking the earth as you've been taught in Contemplation and Presence Class.

He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

There were always dog walkers out & about. Sometimes they even stopped for a chat while the various mutts inspected each other. Rebus would be asked how old his dog was. No idea. The breed, then ? Mongrel. And all the while, he would be thinking about cigarettes.

went to take a look at it. A plaque

one was very

Pretty much.

muttered. Then:

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.