Quotes about Contemplation

What's the solution? To meditate on the Word and give ourselves every opportunity to remember what is true.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.