Quotes About Contemplation

May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself?

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.

That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.

I sat on the front steps alone, waiting for a sense of ease and peace to settle in the air around me. A woman passing on the street said, ´A decongestant, an antihistamine, a cough suppressant, a pain reliever.´

Isolation is not a drawback to those who understand that isolation is the point.

When I get real high I can feel the space between sounds.

What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.

I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors.

I'm at that certain stage in a night of drinking and talking when I see things clearly through a small opening, a window in space.

Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration.

What ambiguity there is in exalted things. We despise them a little.

Minnesota is a human moment.

In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits.

What can you think about in the face of this kind of beauty? I get scared, I know that.

Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer día apenas llegué a mirar. Creía estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mirar.

She walked into the room and went to the window. She opened it. She threw the window open. She didn't know why she did this. Then she knew. She wanted to feel the sea tang on her face and the flow of time in her body, to tell her who she was.

Moj? dusz? wype?nia?a lito?? nade mn? samym.

She looked past the bowl into a space inside her head that was also here in front of her.

I got out of bed in the middle of the night and went to the small room at the end of the hall to watch Steffie and Wilder sleep. I remained at this task, motionless, for nearly an hour, feeling refreshed and expanded in unnameable ways.

The highest layer is that of reflective thought. Note that it does not have direct access either to sensory input or to the control of behavior. Instead it watches over, reflects upon, and tries to bias the behavioral level.

5. In all things, before you begin something, be cautious and ponder what the outcome may be. In all that you do and undertake, think constantly whether you would want to be doing it if that very hour you were to be called by death to appear before God's judgment. For this reason never allow yourself to be found in any situation in which you could not trust or hope for your salvation. Live every day as if you might die and appear before the judgment seat of Christ.