Quotes About Contemplative

I'm an old soul. When I was a kid all the kids would be playing and I would be sitting on the steps with the teachers just watching.

Contemplative prayer starts modestly, but as soon as it begins to reach a certain intensity, it opens us to the unconscious. Painful memories that we have forgotten or repressed begin to come to consciousness. Primitive emotions that we felt as children and that we have been compensating for may come to consciousness.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.

I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.

While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.

was, and remains, a sort of Sphinx of the American West: His eyes had seen things, his mind held secrets, but he kept his mouth shut.

I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don't speak unless I have to.

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

I am really opinionated when I want to be but I'm just not loud.

The Lizards were extremely philosophical by nature, and often sat thinking for hours and hours together

If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply

I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing at all. I'm doing the other thing.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

He does not admire the merely contemplative life; like Goethe he scorns knowledge that does not lead to action: men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators.

The snow turned purple, a deep, dark contemplative color.

quieter and more intense

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

bemused. "You wouldn't

Cats are fond of mooning.