309 Quotes About Contemplation

In contemplation lies the seed of peace – in peace lies the seed of morality - in morality lies the seed of genuine, non-dual progress of humankind.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on driving against the other side of the street, the gramophone singing behind closed windows in some room - they made themselves heard in this silence, as if they had owned it for ever and ever.

We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking, and hoping what we do magically works out. If it doesn’t, we rush to do something else, something also not well thought-out, and then hope for more magic.