309 Quotes About Contemplation

Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

You're in the garden, you're where John is, in the dirt, abstracted, holding his green trowel.This is how he gardens: fifteen minutes of intense effort, fifteen minutes of ecstatic contemplation.

The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.

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.

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

For the monk searches not only his own heart: he plunges deep into the heart of that world of which he remains a part although he seems to have "left" it. In reality the monk abandons the world only in order to listen more intently to the deepest and most neglected voices that proceed from its inner depth.

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends

Personal qualities today are increasingly marginalized in favor of technocratic, market-driven skills. Instead, finance is the new courage, branding is the new compassion, and coding is the new contemplation.