Quotes about Contemplation

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

At first, after her conversion she thought she would have to renounce all that was secular and live totally immersed in God, but then she realized that, even in the contemplative life, you cannot sever all connection with the world, that the deeper you are drawn into God, the more you must go out of yourself to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.

In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger

The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of the troubled and frothy surface. [Alluding to Joseph Priestley's Observations on Air]

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.