Quotes about Contemplation

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

What better way to enjoy rains than lazing around in your house and admiring nature.

It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady on the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.

And it seems to me the world is a manger, the whole bloody mess of it, where God is being born again and again and again and again and again and again. You've got your mind on so many other things. You are so busy with this and that, you don't see it. You don't notice it.

Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and reading about it so much and to start watching and listening.

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.