Quotes about Contemplation

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

I smoke when I want to talk to God. I smoke when I want to make love. Lately I feel like me and God make love just fine anyhow.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.