309 Quotes About Contemplation

Everything has a reason attached to its inception by virtue of the choices we make. The choices indeed materialize the reasons. The reason being the ‘cause’ and every cause conceptualizes an ‘effect’ at its core, thereby identifying itself under the principle of causality.

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

I'm afraid there are two kinds of alienation: one is the exploited worker's, the other that of the worker on holiday. The first has no time to think. The second can only think, and that is his sentence.

An individual excels where the institution fails.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

Contemplation does not rest until it has found the object which dazzles it.