Quotes About Contemplation

It is the contemplation of absurd odds. We are all inside a dream that is real. We are the fires conjured from nothing. We exist out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.

Letters to a Young Poet—Rainer Maria Rilke Poems—Emily Dickinson Henry David Thoreau's journal When Things Fall Apart—Pema Chödrön The House at Pooh Corner—A. A. Milne Bird by Bird—Anne Lamott Meditations—Marcus Aurelius Tao Te Ching—Laozi Serious Concerns—Wendy Cope Dream Work—Mary Oliver

The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning.

She took a deep breath, as if the question were something she had to swim under.

Sometimes just the sight of a tree or sunset can smack you with the power of every tree or sunset you have ever seen

I want you to Slow down I just want it all To slow down; I want to make a forest Of a moment And live in that forest For ever Before you go

Visualize and re-experience it completely in your mind.

George sat on his porch, and drank his Coke and made daydreams out of the rain. He wondered about the book he would write this year, and he wondered - not too desperately - whether love would find him at last and let him rest for a time. But he smiled all the while he was thinking about it, because at the core he was happy enough just to be alive and watching the storm, and this one thing made him special.

Others abide our question. Thou art free.We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,Out-topping knowledge.

We cannot kindle when we willThe fire that in the heart resides,The spirit bloweth and is still,In mystery our soul abides.

In mystery our soul abides.

Meditation is the practice of silent contemplation. The practice of mediation eradicates deeply rooted negative thoughts to allow positive ones to gradually make your mind their permanent abode. Meditation calms you down. This allows you moments of non-interrupted contemplation of what's going on inside your body as well as your surroundings. It illuminates the purpose you have in life and increases your memory, focus, and productivity.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

We must retain the remembrance of God's works, that we may remain under the influence of God's law.

Let us endeavour then, by reading, contemplation, and prayer, to know as much of heaven as we can, that we may be desiring and longing to be there.

I continue to believe that we can learn more in an hour of silence than we can in a year from books.

More than just a time and a place to pray, Dynamic Catholics have a routine within their routine. When they sit down to pray each day, they don't just see what happens; they have a routine within the routine. They tend to begin their time of prayer in very specific ways: by reading the Bible, praying the morning prayers of the Church, reading from a favorite spiritual book, etc.

Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

They always talk who never think.

Sometimes--as it was happening now--the music on the radio matched the rhythm of the bridge. The cables climbed toward the second arch, and she felt herself in the uncanny presence of beauty. Nothing else in her day stirred her to the contemplation of abstract ideas. The bridge was making an argument for its own soundness as she drove over it.

Fundamental science is theoretical knowledge, while technology is utilitarian knowledge and contemplative science is liberating knowledge. They can thus complete each other without any conflict.

His listeners first became aware that their own understanding was deepening, and then, as they noticed this effect among their fellow practitioners, their contemplation naturally became deeper still. Those present later revealed that they had witnessed even birds and wild animals responding to Patrul, sitting quite still yet alert, as if absorbed in natural awareness.

Nous ne nous ménageons même pas une heure de réflexion sur cent heures de divertissement. Tout au plus quelques instants, lorsque des bouleversements affectifs ou professionnels nous font « remettre les choses en question ». Mais comment, et pour combien de temps ? Profitons-nous vraiment de ces occasions pour regarder en face le bien-fondé des certitudes fragiles, la nature éphémère des sentiments et des attachements ?

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.