Contemplation Quotes
Contemplation Quote of the day
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.
Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.
How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?
Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.
I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter
What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end’s impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?
Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel...Sleeping our noons away
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace
Yearn to grow in the field of love and bliss not in the field of competition and contemplation.
Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.
…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.
The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.
. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.
In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology
If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.
Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.
