Quotes About Contemplation

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.

Pensive I sate me down; there gentle sleep   First found me, and with soft oppression seis'd   My droused sense, untroubl'd, though I thought   I then was passing to my former state   Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve:

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

What can poor mortals say about clouds?

Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream;

You are yourself a Sequoia. Stop and get acquainted with your brethren... It will do you good.

Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again.

One of John's favorite quotes was from Meister Eckhart: Nothing in the universe resembles God more than silence.

A morning when you become a pure vessel For what wants to ascend from silence

I love mountains. I feel that mountains are huge contemplatives. They are there and they are in the presence up to their necks and they are still in it and with it and within it. One of the lovely ways to pray is to take your body out into the landscape and to be still in it. Your body is made out of clay, so your body is actually a miniature landscape that has got up from the earth and now walking on the normal landscape.

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking.

Imagination is the most reverent mirror of the soul.

Meister Eckhart said that there is nothing in the world that resembles God so much as silence. Silence

Landscape has a soul and a presence, and landscape- living in the mode of silence is always wrapped in seamless prayer.

nor my favorite blue, the cobalt colour of silence.

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking. Thought

The issue when it comes to meditation is what, not if. The mind observes the impulse to meditate the way the body observes the law of gravity. Scripture has a lot to say about meditating wisely. The psalmist talks about the fruitful person as one whose "delight is in the law of the

Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes — The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Think greatly of the greatness of God.