Quotes About Contemplation

Recreation becomes a means to re-create one's consciousness at every moment instead of a means to forget oneself and to pass the time.

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

When we devote all of our actions to a spiritual goal, everything that we do becomes a prayer.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

So when the night overshadowed him, he saw a star. He said: Is this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I love not the setting ones.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

[M]editation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

I found this book simple but very deep, some chapters on the heavy side but well worth reading for the new comers and also for the veteran in the field of meditation

People make a great deal of the flowers of spring and the leaves of autumn, but for me a night like this, with a clear moon shining on snow, is the best -- and there is not a trace of color in it. I cannot describe the effect it has on me, weird and unearthly somehow. I do not understand people who find a winter evening forbidding.

baz? yaln?zl?klar haysiyettir

Her suskunluk bir gizemin kabulüdür. Sende gizemli görünen pek çok ?ey vard?.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.

Silence is a great wisdom.

Abstaining from anger and sex is like popcorn in the oven, thoughts quickly cook.

Eternity turns you into a spectator.

Loneliness will turn you into a dumb genius.

Philosophy is the prelude to death.

Spend your eyesight wisely.

Thinking is a philosophical blender for awareness. It is insight that brings healing to our minds.

Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

To a Boy Boy, you are a hidden watering place under the trees where, as the day darkens, gentle beasts with calm eyes appear one after another. Even if the sun drops flaming at the end of the fields where grass stirs greenly and a wind pregnant with coolness and night-dew agitates your leafy bush, it is only a premonition. The tree of solitude that soars with ferocity, crowned with a swirling night, still continues in your dark place. ?Translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato