Quotes about Contemplation

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

"Sometimes," said she, "I think that is my permanent feeling towards people. I like the world, the sky and the earth and the greater mystery beyond. But people—yes, they are all monkeys to me."

She said every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.

If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting. Just read the Bible and the Gospel, that will start you thinking, thinking about many things, thinking about everything, well then, think about many things, think about everything, that will lift your thoughts above the humdrum despite yourself. We know how to read, so let us read!

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?