309 Quotes About Contemplation

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help.

A life not truly lived is hurt and fear, not healed or acknowledged.

We call something beautiful, when we gain pleasure from contemplating it as an individual object, for its own sake, and in its presented form.

Midnight SteelWhen Love’s steel draws near it doth but conspire,And pierces she the hearts of all she holds and so desires.Come thou, dear Love, to sleep, rest in your arms and dream but deep.Help me to love all of my days, so that on sweet earth I may stay.—Valkyrie Kari, Musings in the Night

Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.

-A Kari TaleKari entered under the archway, hitting her chest to get the cold out and stamping snow off her boots.Prince Thomm ‘The Bored,’ drolly looked up from his metallic spinny globe. “How ever is the weather out there–with the peasants?” he said dryly.Kari looked up and tee-heed a smile. “You don’t say,” retorted the Prince.“Best dress sharp. ’Tis knowing out there.

Wherever I am is a result of me saying ‘yes’ to something when I should have said ‘no,’ or vice-versa. And me getting out of wherever I am is going to be based on saying the same things, but saying them in a different order than I did the first time.

Patience is the thing that makes me think about my choices rather than having my choices make me think about why I made them.

Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.