Quotes about Contemplation
Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.
— Jack Kerouac
Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.
— Jack Kerouac
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - What is the meaning of the void? The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.
— Jack Kerouac
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
— Albert Einstein
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
— John of the Cross
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
— AA Milne
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
— John F. Kennedy
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
— Julian of Norwich
The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
— Dante Alighieri
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
— Epictetus
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
— Thomas Merton
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
— Victor Hugo