Quotes About Contemplative

I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins.

I am not the guy who will go and talk for the sake of talking.

I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary.

From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions.

I'm not much of a party girl.

The wise are known for their few words.

Pocos cristianos involucrados en la espiritualidad contemplativa integran el funcionamiento interior de la salud emocional. Al mismo tiempo, pocas personas involucradas en la salud emocional conforman la espiritualidad contemplativa. Ambas son elementos poderosos y transforman vidas cuando se les trata por separado. Pero juntas brindan nada menos que una revolución espiritual que transforma los lugares ocultos debajo de la superficie.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you." Or, as Annie Dillard, who sat still for a long time at Tinker Creek—and in many other places—has it, "I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.

I don't prefer to go out and chill. I hardly roam around. It might be difficult to believe, but I haven't visited Akshardham temple or Qutub Minar.

I'm not a huge vocal guy.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I've always been a serious person.

I'm honestly very shy and quiet and to myself. Not that too much shocks me anymore.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

I'm not the kind of person who walks in a room and is just like, 'Hi everybody!' I'm more somebody who is quiet and who isn't good at starting conversations.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

I'm not Mr. Brooding.

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

I'm not a sun person.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring.

They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.