Quotes About Contemplation

Life is one live it, express it, sustain it and survive it with dignity, and think about it, atleast once in the silence.

Be mindful of what you toss away, be careful of what you push away, and think hard before you walk away.

Those days where all you feel like doing is laying in bed.

It is a pity to shut oneself indoors in the country,

Je pose la tasse et me tourne vers mon esprit.

motionless, gazing, breathing, endeavouring to penetrate with my mind beyond the thing seen or smelt.

Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.

Me vuelvo hacia mi alma. Ella es la que tiene que dar con la verdad.

Once in my room I had to stop every loophole, to close the shutters, to dig my own grave as I turned down the bed-clothes, to wrap myself in the shroud of my nightshirt.

like an entirely cloudless sky when one is going mountaineering...

I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world...

To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of a spiritual life. It can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.

Reading is at the threshold of our inner life; it can lead us into that life but cannot constitute it.

For a long time, I went to bed early.

tout cela qui prend forme et solidité, est sorti, ville et jardins, de ma tasse de thé.

Y si contemplas las estrellas y se te llena el alma de imposibles, es que mi soledad viene a besarte.

Ciertos días yo amanecía llena de palabras

Ya instalada, miré a mi alrededor y no pude reprimir un suspiro de satisfacción respaldado por los rayos de sol blancos y calientes que invadían el lugar. ¿Puede haber una sensación más excitante (y atemorizante a la vez, lo reconozco) para una mujer que el sentirse fuera del alcance de los demás, de los cercanos que la aman pero que simultánea y sutilmente la ahogan?

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.