309 Quotes About Contemplation

An examined life, an enigmatic investigation of reality, is required in order for a person to realize a transcendent spiritual journey. A contemplative soul is bound to live life more intensely than someone whom is concerned exclusively with living an external existence.

Oftentimes we wonder, I'm sure, about the potential consequences of the choices we make in life. But would it compel us to reconsider is another question

Is the deer crossing the road, or is the road crossing the forest?

Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.

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 bazaars... Anything is possible on a train...

I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.

My decision to become a teacher suddenly seemed even more appropriate. Life had just become that much more unpredictably precarious and ill-suited to long-term planning, and it felt that much more necessary to spread love and knowledge to those who would one day have to manage this messy and painful world of ours"Also in Zack Love's "Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

Contemplation that never leads to anything other than contemplation is contemplation that we’ve dressed up in the garb of progress so that we can tell ourselves that we’re doing something productive when in fact we’re contemplating how we can avoid doing anything.

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.