Quotes About Contemplation

In this new life I am condemned to, is there nothing that is not open to doubt?

The glimmering landscape materialized slowly before him. Such stillness. He might have been the last man in the world.

He had a habit also, when being spoken to, no matter how earnestly, of turning very slowly on his heel and limping a little way away, head bowed, and then stopping to stand with his back turned and hands clasped behind him, so that one could not be sure that he was still listening to what one was saying, or had sunk into altogether more profound communings with himself.

Å»aden szczegóÅ' ludzkiego oblicza nie zniesie dÅ'u?szej obserwacji.

I looked out into the luminous grey twilight, aghast and in an obscure way proud at the thought of what I had lost, of what might have been.

remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.

It's enough to make me laugh. I close the door behind me and sit down again, considering this, and truly, I find it so funny that I laugh until I cry. And when the tears come I think aah... So this is what it means to be alone.

I stood up and offered not a prayer, for that was of no use to anyone, but a moment of contemplation.

Do you think . . . ? 'I do sometimes, my boy,'admitted the old man. 'When I can't avoid it.

I'm not praying, she said. I'm remembering. Sometimes the two things look alike, that's all.

Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astrónomo.

Wenn ein Mensch nachts in den Himmel schaut, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er Astronom ist - Pavel

Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.

is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. 

For instance, when I think and meditate on what I saw at the cross, that will do it. And when I look at my embroidered coat, that will do it. Plus, when I read and study the scroll I carry in my pocket next to my heart, that will do it. When my thoughts are warmly stimulated about where I am going, that will do it too.

A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

The more you engage in good thinking, the more good thoughts you will continue to think. As playwright Victor Hugo asserted, An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.

The Law of Reflection Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." —PETER F. DRUCKER

Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day." –RALPH WALDO EMERSON

MÍRESE CUIDADOSAMENTE AL ESPEJO.

stopping to reflect is one of the most valuable activities people can do to grow.