Quotes About Contemplation

I think about it quite a bit, actually, that look on his face. I think about a lot of things. I think about the first time I ever saw a birch tree; about the last time I saw Julian; about the first sentence that I ever learned in Greak. ?????? ?? ????. Beauty is harsh.

Joan Miró: You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life

Now searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air.

I don't know where Henry was. Probably looking at the moon and reciting some poem from the T'ang Dynasty.

to me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject) I

All right," said Julian, looking around the table. "I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life

To me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.

He's always up in the clouds with Plato or something.

Probably I'll be dead soon.

I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats. Often I saw interesting-looking people on the street and thought about them restlessly for days, imagining their lives, making up stories about them on the subway or the crosstown bus.

All of the above.

the place where words didn't work.

Nobody said anything. Dust motes floated in a sunbeam.

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.

I want the times we live in to be praying times. I want the Christians of our day to be praying Christians. I want the Church of our age to be a praying Church.

When all else fails, philosophize.

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

found him on his bench, sober and sorry for it.

Have you ever wondered who you would be if you hadn't grown up in the Syndicate Worlds?" "You mean, if I'd been born on some Alliance planet?" "Perhaps," Iceni said. "Or perhaps somewhere else. Some star system far away, where they've never heard of the Alliance or the Syndicate Worlds or the war. Suppose you had grown up there? Who would you be?

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. -Mother Teresa

Good. What do you need to pull it off?" "Take a breath, look around, make a call," Reece muttered.