Quotes About Contemplation

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.

Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry.

If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now.

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.

É preciso partir de um profundo ateísmo para se chegar à ideia de Deus.

All the great successes of statesmanlike art and clever popular instincts were the result of cool contemplation, long silence and waiting, hard self-control and, above all, a fundamental renunciation of intoxication and and spectacles.

Where grave philosophers have watched the setting sun die out of the sky, as the glories of their own youth have died away unvalued, till lost for ever. Where ascetic reading-men have mooned along its banks blind to all the loveliness of the water-lily below, or the clouds above, as they took their constitutional and pondered their prize essay.

Plato had to make the tremendous effort (it is one of the most exhausting which man is called on to exert) of turning a vague feeling into a clear thought.

Wordsworth's called The Tables Turned: Sweet is the lore which nature brings: Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Nekem szavakról szavak jutnak az eszembe és viszont.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

Instead of unthinkingly rushing into action, we can ask ourselves: Do I really want to do this? Is anybody going to be hurt by this? Will I like having done this?

ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting here like unconquerable savages, men missing their dogs and talking pointlessly unless talk to the dead. let's sharpen something.

To be a meditator doesn't simply mean to live in a cave; it means to train oneself in the true meaning [of the natural state].

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

there's no such thing as an idle thought and that all of us are way too cavalier and tolerant of our minds' wandering.

rousing myself from my memories.

for many hours. "He didn't