Quotes About Contemplative

It was monks who first taught the art of reading in silence. During the Dark Ages. Augustine, perhaps, was first. And silence was a tongue Elena understood. Silence was her idiom for support and caring. Silence was permissive and contemplative and nonconfrontational and there was melody to it. It was both earth and ether.

a face more suited for making book than selling books.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

Father St. Jure, S.J., commenting on Canticles 8:6 — "Place me as a seal upon thy heart and as a seal upon thy arm" — says that "the heart signifies the interior, contemplative life, and the arm, the exterior, active life, and that Holy Scripture mentions the heart and the arm together in order to show that both modes of life can be found perfect together in one person. The heart is mentioned first, because it is far more noble and necessary than the arm.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life 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.

It's always the quiet ones that are the most interesting. Stay interesting.

I'm on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don't mind people, but I'd prefer not to have a lot of them around.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

I prefer to be a private person.

I am basically a private person.

I'm kind of a private person in a way.

I'm a fairly private person.

I am a private person. I don't need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.

I am quite a private person.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.

I'm a pretty private person.

I'm a private person. I don't want to write a book because I know the story and feel no need to tell it to anyone else.

I'm a private person. I am quiet.

I am a very private person.

I have always been a private person.

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.

George Washington was always the maestro of eloquent silences.