Quotes About Contemplation

Il tenente Dumbar non era realmente inghiottito. Ma quella fu la prima parola che gli si fissò in mente. Tutto era immenso. Quel vasto cielo azzurro senza una nube. Quell'oceano d'erba che ondeggiava al vento. Null'altro, fino a dove riusciva a spingere lo sguardo. Non una pista, non una traccia di sochi lasciati da altre ruote che il carro potesse seguire. Solo lo spazio, assoluto e vuoto

Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of eath's greenings. Now, think.

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

Our vocation is a call to listening. To adoration of the One who dwells among us.

My mind is reeling.

Father Sergius nodded. "Yes, but not as a pious form of life that one puts on like an overcoat. Rather, he lives this mystery without thinking about it. It is not something he does; it is something he is.

Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

Answers are temporary things, Anne", he had said. "There will always be more questions." "And shall we dispense with our minds?" she had countered. "No", he said carefully. "Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

Effective leaders strike the right balance between doing (making things happen) and being (observing and reflecting).

leaders strike the right balance between doing (making things happen) and being (observing and reflecting).

Michael Dahl

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so complex.

If you like solitude, you're never alone.

Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. "All profound things," he wrote, "are preceded and attended by Silence.

He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to reveal the Meaning of Life. "Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he'd learned. I accepted it as truth.

the true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself.

He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. "I'd stretch out in the water, " he said, "and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.

Solitude bestows an increase in something valuable. I can't dismiss that idea. Solitude increased my perception. But here's

The internet, wrote Nicholas Carr in The Shallows, his book about brain science and screen time, steadily chips away at one's "capacity for concentration and contemplation.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.