91 quotes found
“In our spreading materialist wasteland, more and more people thirst for contemplation, including political wheel-dealers, tycoons, and military top brass, stressed out by the rigors of their profes...”
“At some point in life every person encounters haunting feelings of loneliness, because the feeling of being alone and withdrawing deeply into the inner self is part of the human condition. A person...”
“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose co...”
“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”
“Maybe the point of life (and youth, once it was over), was to elevate yourself, through time and reflection, into something worthy of contemplation (even if you were the only one doing the contempl...”
“We gain knowledge about the interworking of our personal mind through observation of the external world and personal introspection. Contemplation requires a degree of stillness, the willingness to ...”
“Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.”
“Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?”
“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible b...”
“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”
“In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends”
“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 trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughtshe must be on the best terms with all of these; and he wh...”
“If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirr...”
“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.”
“His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.”
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of t...”
“For what I am suggesting is that concern for the mysterious is at the heart of the humanities, whereas at the heart of the sciences there is a concern with the problematic. That this is a contrast,...”
“In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.”
“Wind is on fire" - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have...”
