Quotes About Contemplation

Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, - Mais on y pense chaque instant)

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

Some people would rather die than think.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

I get really excited thinking about being in the world without a lot of people.