309 Quotes About Contemplation

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt that I knew what the white man were feeling. Merely because I had read a book that had spoken of how they lived and thought, I identified myself with that book.

What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.

Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.

When the last leaf falls,what will die within us?

Vivimos descubriendo y olvidandoesa dulce costumbre de la noche.Hay que mirarla bien. Puede ser última.(Our life is spent discovering and forgettingthat gentle habit of the night.Take a good look. It could be the last.)

Darkness was conducive to contemplation.

If language is deprived of what is indirect in it, its nature approaches that of a scream or order. Friendliness and politeness are also based on the circuitous and indirect. The orientation of violence, by contrast, is towards directness.

There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over from doing, trying, and managing things by his own self alone and when he can let go and open himself to the higher force--when he can submit his ego to its ordinances, its commands, or to its whispers.

We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.