Quotes about Contemplation

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.

My poor little sister-in-law is breaking her heart by mere contemplation of your physical and moral beauty.

When Joy grew mad with awe, at counting future tears.

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

So decide now that you are worthy of living as a full-grown man who is making progress, and make everything that seems best be a law that you cannot go against. And if you meet with any hardship or anything pleasant or reputable or disreputable, then remember that the contest is now and the Olympic games are now and you cannot put things off any more and that your progress is made or destroyed by a single day and a single action

Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.