Quotes About Contemplation

La soledad es algo maravilloso (...), por dos motivos: primero porque le permite a un hombre estar consigo mismo; y segundo porque se libra de estar con los demás.

walked off to his car. He

Sometimes silence is the best question.

a body on the sand. My journal gets very spotty here, with only a single detailed entry

You only grow when you are alone.

L" energy is always within us, however, and we can become more aware of it not by trying harder but by slowing and quieting down to, as fifteenth-century philosopher Marsilio Ficino suggested, turn toward the mystery of our own nature the way a sunflower turns toward the sun.

Sit up to slow down,

She thinks about the salt point, that mysterious, elusive moment of change.

Contemporary Americans, immersed in the busy rhythms of twenty-first-century life, rarely pause to reflect that they dwell in a land that has been inhabited for millennia. Human settlement on the continent we call North America (after the Florentine cartographer Amerigo Vespucci) began at least 15,000 years ago

I contemplate my last moments and wait for the explanation I know will not be offered.

the other great refuge from the Devil and his wiles is prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event.

We shall soon have to build heavily insulated cloisters where neither radio waves nor newspapers can come, in which ignorance of all politics will be guarded and cultivated. Speed, numbers, effects of surprise, contrast, repetition, size novelty, and credulity will be despised there. And thither, on certain days, visitors will come, to look through the iron bars at a few specimens of free men.

But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very soul!

Il faut donc que notre esprit s'excite soi-même à se défaire de sa stupeur et à se reprendre de cette solennelle et immobile surprise qui lui causent le sentiment d'être tout, et l'évidence de n'être rien.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Filosofische posities krijgen hun ware objectiviteit alleen wanneer de lezer ze zich zelf toeëigent, wanneer hij ze voor eigen rekening zelf na-denkt, en zo de gedachten van anderen tot zijn eigen, opnieuw persoonlijke gedachten maakt.

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

You know there isn't much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.