Quotes about Contemplation

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed.

Thinking too much just brings it back to me, me, me—but thanking takes my eyes off myself and my mistakes and puts them on others, on things bigger than myself. I can't stand here very long without being humbled at how small I am and amazed at how big and beautiful our world is.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.