Quotes About Contemplation

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Good God, what did he not remember?

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...Otherwise you will drown in me.

I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.