Quotes About Contemplation

I guess I don't want everyone to know what I'm doing every second.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

To live a truly spiritual life, you need to take time at least once a day to bring your vision inward, to connect with your true self, your attention having been focused outside all day.

Don't move after you're done thinking; think as you move.

El mar es] una inmensidad que no piensa. Sólo se mueve una, otra y otra vez. Y otra más. Año tras año, siglo tras siglo. Sí, majestuoso, pero siempre muere aquí, a los pies de quienes vienen a contemplarlo. Mañana será lo mismo. Y el día en que arrasa, mata y siembre la destrucción no sabe por qué lo hace. Si de sonidos se trata, prefiero la risa de un niño o el estertor de un anciano.

Contemplative vision is the vision that says "you are good as you are because you are the sacrament of God's love.

I wish to learn silence from the dark woods, the unused middle rooms, from the girls in their white dresses,

They say that sometimes a man cannot recognize himself in a looking-glass. It is even harder to recognize oneself in the clouded mirror of the past.

What is silence? Something of the sky in us.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Tell me, love, what I can't explain: Should I spend this short, horrid time with thoughts only, and alone know no love and give none? Must one think? Won't he be missed?

Unii oameni traiesc, iar altii ii contempla cum traiesc, eu ma numar printre cei care contempla. Dumneavoastra?

Malina: calm the commotion. Disturb the calm. Me: (doltente, Molto Mosso) But when will the time finally come to accomplish this, when can I do and do nothing more, all at once? When will the time come when I can find time for that? When will it be time to stop all false differentiation and categorization, to stop false fear and suffering, senseless empathy, this constant, senseless pondering and musing! (Una corda) I want to think my way out slowly. (Tutte le corde) Is that the way it is?

Ald?rm?yorum, geliÅŸigüzel, ya, öyle mi, diyorum, çünkü birbirimize söylediÄŸimiz say?l? ÅŸeylerle, ona gerçekten söylemek istediÄŸim aras?nda bir hava boÅŸluÄŸu var; istediÄŸim ona her ÅŸeyi söylemek, ama tek yapt???m burada oturmak...

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, "I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there's something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it's not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It's not like I sit here philosophizing, because I've no talent for that. It's just this thing about silence that's so wonderful.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

No hay tiempo para discutir la soledad.

Beauty is a call to admiration, not to action.

A chance to sit quietly and find out who you are; where you've been and where you're going.

didn't think of it." She supposed she should have

why do you think that?

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.