Quotes about Contemplation
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
to be superior (überlegen) to others in real life, the indispensable condition is to be thoughtful and deliberate (überlegt), in other words, to set to work in accordance with concepts.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.
- Audre Lorde
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
- Teresa of Avila
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again and again, to Love which is the same as returning to God
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.
- Jonathan Edwards