Quotes about Contemplation

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.

Make thought a whirlwind.

By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.

It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.

The mind is a garden

One speaks to one's self, talks to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because they are not visible and palpable.

These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst

He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In

What more do you need? A little garden to walk in, and immensity to reflect on. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in heaven.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.