Quotes About Contemplation

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

What a datum! I couldn't help thinking over and over.

One attractive thing about me is that I'm never bored, because during any caesura my personal automatic pastime of questioning my own motives is there for me.

This shooting star had apparently been sedentarized in my bailiwick-so, good.

To philosophize means to make vivid.

Para Cioran, toda forma de elevación presupone lo inútil: "Una excepción inútil, un modelo al que nadie haga caso -ese es el rango al que debemos aspirar si queremos enaltecernos a nosotros mismos

This is an example of the effective method of 'transforming disturbances of meditation into objects of meditation' which will be treated later.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

Kar?m dü?ündü?ü için, ev i?lerini de ben görüyordum albay?m. Çok dü?ünceli kad?nd?: Durmadan dü?ünürdü.

Bir soka??n ortas?nda durdum. Art?k bu soka?? bile bitirmek iste?i kalmam??t? bende. Yeni bir sokak, yeni bir karanl?k ba?layacakt?. Kald?r?m?n üstünde öylece duruyordum.

bomonti, ne garip sokak ad?: oralarda böyle sokak ad? olmas? garip. çok giderdi, az bahsederdi: her zaman yapt??? gibi. beni ona anlatmaz, onu bana anlatmaz: herkesin bir yeri var. gülümsedi

Hiç olmazsa mezar ta??na yaz?n: Burada insanlara ba?ka türlü hayran olan bir yat?yor.

Ben, tek ba??ma ya?amal?y?m; ba?kalar?n? zehirlememeliyim.

Bilmiyorum, bazen kar??t?r?yorum; özellikle, ba??mda u?ultular oldu?u zamanlar. Onun gibi dü?ünmeyi bilmek isterdim.

Sonra ne olmu?tu? Sonra... buradas?n ya... bu evde. Demek sonra hiçbir ?ey olmad? onunla ilgili. Ne kötü, ne de iyi bir ?ey: Demek ki hiçbir ?ey. Ama bunu hissetmedim; geçi?ler öyle sezdirmeden oldu ki... Hay?r, dü?üncelerin kar??t?; basit anlam?yla sözlerin... Bununla ne ilgisi var? Fakat ben... ondan kaçarken, nas?l oldu da birden ba??m? çevirip bu resmi çektirdim? Hep böyle mi durdum resimlerde?

It's hard to believe that kind of thing happened here, in the United States in the twenty-first century, but it did.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

When I am alone, I love the wide roads. There, I have conversations with myself. My free steps move easily and my body leaves my spirit free of obstacles; it discourses, it reasons, it presses me with questions.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion.

The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus..

But to grasp my theme in its true proportions, it is necessary to do more than calculate. It is necessary to brood upon these magnitudes, to draw out the mind toward them, to feel the littleness of your here and now, and of the moment of civilization which you call history.