Quotes About Contemplation

There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.

Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!

My mother left home in the manner that characterized everything she did: with a decision that swelled and ripened slowly and once made could be rescinded by no one. She would sit at the kitchen table with a large sheet of paper that she would divide into two columns. At the top of one she would write FOR and at the top of the other AGAINST...She made her lists, counted on her fingers, and made her decision only after tabulating and weighing.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

The most powerful form of prayer, and the one which can virtually gain all things and which is the worthiest work of all, is that which flows from a free mind. The freer the mind is, the more powerful and worthy, the more useful, praiseworthy and perfect the prayer and the work become. A free mind can achieve all things.

Only those for whom God is present in all things and who make the very best use of their reason, know what true peace is and truly possess heaven.

Pay heed to this, how you are turned toward your God, when you are in church or in your cell. Maintain this same state of mind and bear it among the crowd and into unrest and dissimilarity.

An angel exists and works as an intelligence, and its state is one of beholding God ceaselessly, who is the object of its intellectual essence.

We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.

Thus the soul's pursuit continues, for she holds to this knowing-by-unknowing.

St. Augustine said, "What good is it to me that this birth takes place ceaselessly if does not take place in me? If it is to be done, it is to be done within me.

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L'ho guardato spesso, quell'estate, il cielo - qualche volta da solo e qualche volta con Marietta. Non ci ho trovato nessun messaggio, nessuna consolazione - neanche se le stelle erranti fossero infinite, e l'universo brulicasse di mondi che non conosciamo. E' solo un ripetitivo, arido meccanismo di corpi che ruotano nello spazio. Il cielo è vuoto.

I sat evaluating myself. I decided to lie down.