309 Quotes About Contemplation

There are streets to enjoy, there are streets to wander aimlessly and also there are streets to contemplate!

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

Anything ending in "ism" should be cause for questioning or deep consideration depending on it's context. -Julieanne-ism

Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness.

Sadly enough, sometimes you and Lenny are the only real human interactions that I have all day. The rest of the day I'm just like a machine that mechnically computes and producesAlso in "Stories and Scripts:An Anthology

Be still, and know that I am God," sings the Biblical Psalmist. This simply means that the movement of thoughts and emotions is to be brought to an end by entering the deepest degree of contemplation. The same teaching is given in the Bhagavad Gita. "As the wick of an oil lamp placed in a wind-free spot is flickerless, so is the yogi of mastered mind who practises union with the God-Self.

... concentrating on the sodden lake of the heart, and its sharp depths / ... I am balanced on one foot, assuming the next step is groundward ('Walking')

Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?