Quotes About Contemplation

Slow people are just paying close attention.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

All of his faculties of observation, exploration, imagination, and contemplation, together with his experimental skill, meticulous record keeping, and sheer determination, would be tested to the full and not found wanting.

Walking makes the mind work

Jesus doesn't just look at us; he looks into us. And if we are willing to hold his gaze, he will burn away what is meaningless and frivolous and contaminating.

Decidedly, the more I think about these things, the more at sea I feel.

Without going within, I go without.

in my head. Was there

what was her life about? Did she mean nothing?

Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she's doing here, in this particular life?

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

She has always known exactly how to be silent.

You need a window into another world to work out what you think of your own.

Shut up and look holy!

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, it is meditation.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

A meditative state can be attained through measured, rhythmic breathing.

I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper.

Begin with "I remember." Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that. Just keep going. Don't be concerned if the memory happened five seconds ago or five years ago.

Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don't worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north—just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.

Anything you do fully is an alone journey.

Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God.

I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.

That day, so many wept. Young and old, friends and strangers, black and white, men and women wept. The angels wept. Jesus wept. Coach Gabe Lewis, though, with his eyes on the lilies, shed not a single tear.