Quotes About Contemplation

Eighty percent of an Agency brain is devoted to repercussions and possible futures, even when you're just thinking about moving in with your boyfriend.

He was drunk, but this was something he'd thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.

The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.

Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever said anything really important in my entire life -- there's a lack of words for the most important things anyway. (I must make a list of missing words -- top of it I'll put a verb that means something in between "I sense" and "I see.")

perhaps solitude has stretched out his thoughts into long strands, and accustomed him to internal dialogues.

For the best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.

It's not about whether God exists or not. It's not like that. To believe, or not to believe, that is the question.

Izydor couldn't care less about either the Party or going to church. Now he needed time for thinking, remembering Ruta, for reading, for learning German, for writing letters, collecting stamps, staring at his skylight, and gradually, idly sensing the order of the universe.

En contemplant le paysage noir et blanc du plateau, j'ai compris combien la tristesse était un mot important dans la definition du monde. Elle se trouve a la base de tout, elle est le cinquième élement, la quintessence.

looked out of the window. Dawn was breaking, and idle snowflakes were gradually starting to fill the nothingness. They were falling slowly, weaving their way through the air and spinning on their own axis like feathers.

Philosophical concepts—those were what kept him up at night; they belonged to him.

As I stood there, gazing at the pulpits, I could turn around at any moment to take gentle hold of the sharp, jagged line of the horizon as if it were a strand of hair. To look beyond it.

In their heads they perform mute examinations of conscience: Do they have everything, passport, ticket, and papers, have they exchanged money. And where is it they're going. And what for.

Zobacz – powiedzia? do swojej kobiety, która przysiad?a na por?czy krzes?a z palcami u?o?onymi w lecznicze mudry – oto jest Nic, które zawiera niesko?czon? liczb? wymiarów wszystkiego.

Consider That Ye May Be Wrong.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

who look on the world and the universe they are born in with quite other eyes. To

En estas ocasiones, creo sinceramente que lo mejor es tragarse una cápsula de dinamita y encender, con toda tranquilidad, un cigarrillo.

We may gain some inkling of what God is if we attempt by means of every sensation to reach the reality of each creature, not giving up until we are alive to what transcends it … Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies,

The 'contemplation of nature' can give spiritual flavour to our lives even if we lay no claim to be in any way 'mystics' in the rather particular sense that this word has acquired in the West. A little loving attention in the light of the Risen Christ is enough. The humblest objects then breathe out their secret. The person becomes the priest of the world at the altar of his heart, celebrating that 'cosmic liturgy' of which Maximus the Confessor speaks.

To progress in thinking about creatures is painful and wearisome. The contemplation of the Holy Trinity is ineffable peace and silence. Evagrius of Pontus Centuries,

The virtues acquired are the flesh of Christ and whoever eats it will find inner freedom. The contemplation of creatures is the blood of Christ and whoever drinks it will be enlightened by him. The knowledge of God is the breast of Christ and whoever rests on it will be a theologian. Evagrius of Pontus Mirror for Monks,

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.