Quotes About Contemplation

I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.

I have come back through the years to this stone hollow encrypted in its own stillness I hear it without listening

To remember Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never Has fallen silent.

How long ago the day is when at last I look at it with the time it has taken to be there still in it

I do not think I am fond, Father, Of the way in which always before he listens He prepares himself by listening. It is Unequal, Father, like the reason For which the wheel turns, though there is no wheel.

turning the pages patiently in search of meanings

Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Think first. Talk less. Start today.

There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

Silence is also a form of speaking.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

Humility is attentive patience.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

You could move to Europe." "You know, I've actually been considering that lately." Kai laughed again, the warmth returning to the sound. "If that's not a vote of confidence, I don't know what is.