Quotes about Contemplation
Chi cerca l'infinito non ha che da chiudere gli occhi.
- Milan Kundera
Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...
- Robert Frost
I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.
- Francis Chan
What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It's thinking!
- Brian Tracy
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD's Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
- Brother Lawrence
Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.
- Brother Lawrence
We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.
- Brother Lawrence
Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
- Carl Sagan
You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.
- Carl Sagan
Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.
- Thich Nhat Hanh