Quotes About Contemplation

I think I have never known anyone who led quite unexamined a life.

This is a case in which I need more than words to find the meaning.

but spend the afternoon in total silence, which involves not only not talking but also not reading, not writing, and not smoking. Even on discussion days, this silence is invoked for regular twenty-minute or hour intervals, a regimen described by one student as "invaluable for clearing your mind of personal hangups" and by Miss Baez as "just about the most important thing about the school.

I smooth out the snapshot and look into his face, and do and do not see my own.

They say an unexamined life is not worth living

S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should. They should.

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I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

Make time to be still.

Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.

Learning to pray doesnt offer us a less busy life; it offers us a less busy heart.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

There's at lest one thing we can be thankful for, if only we can think deep.

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomachs emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you...

Been thinking a lot of things lately...Missing friends from the past..and missing myself being close to God...

Silence doesn't mean I am tired sometimes it says I want to be alone .

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.