Contemplation Quotes
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“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
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![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
![Fernando Pessoa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1649905611i/7816._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
![Federico Fellini](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1609839210i/47352._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”
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![Carl Sandburg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1225504449i/16380._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”
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![Thomas Merton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097624i/1711._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
![Michael Bassey Johnson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614091882i/7189272._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
![Yoshida Kenkō](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389298429i/6937001._UY200_CR36,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Edgar Allan Poe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1454522972i/4624490._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.”
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![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?”
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![Mother Teresa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263888735i/838305._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Thomas Merton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097624i/1711._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. (34) Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.(7) Our reality, our true self, is hidden in what appears to us to be nothingness....We can rise above this unreality and recover our hidden reality....(281) God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. (41)”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
― New Seeds of Contemplation
![Thomas Aquinas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535911966i/158904._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.”
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![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
![Paul Bowles](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1272928960i/7659._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”
― The Spider's House
― The Spider's House
![Fred Rogers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208803867i/32106._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives”
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![Mother Teresa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263888735i/838305._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics:
—missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe.
—contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation.
—universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.”
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
—missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe.
—contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation.
—universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.”
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
![Josef Pieper](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391838644i/885._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.”
― Happiness and Contemplation
― Happiness and Contemplation
![Craig Ferguson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209559121i/77426._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“Gillette--The best a man can get."
I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving world media standing by. Instead, I was just another show-business mediocrity. A drunk who shat his pants and ran for help.
My life had been careless and selfish. Pleasure in the moment was my only thought, my solitary motivation. I had disappointed whoever had been foolish enough to love me, and left them scarred.
I was a very long way from being the best a man can get.”
― American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving world media standing by. Instead, I was just another show-business mediocrity. A drunk who shat his pants and ran for help.
My life had been careless and selfish. Pleasure in the moment was my only thought, my solitary motivation. I had disappointed whoever had been foolish enough to love me, and left them scarred.
I was a very long way from being the best a man can get.”
― American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
![Rabindranath Tagore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1453892068i/36913._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks, the sky and the sunshine of our country? And I came to the conclusion that it is because with us Nature is obviously the more important thing. The sky is free, the fields limitless; and the sun merges them into one blazing whole. In the midst of this, man seems so trivial. He comes and goes, like the ferry-boat, from this shore to the other; the babbling hum of his talk, the fitful echo of his song, is heard; the slight movement of his pursuit of his own petty desires is seen in the world's market-places: but how feeble, how temporary, how tragically meaningless it all seems amidst the immense aloofness of the Universe!
The contrast between the beautiful, broad, unalloyed peace of Nature—calm, passive, silent, unfathomable,—and our own everyday worries—paltry, sorrow-laden, strife-tormented, puts me beside myself as I keep staring at the hazy, distant, blue line of trees which fringe the fields across the river.
Where Nature is ever hidden, and cowers under mist and cloud, snow and darkness, there man feels himself master; he regards his desires, his works, as permanent; he wants to perpetuate them, he looks towards posterity, he raises monuments, he writes biographies; he even goes the length of erecting tombstones over the dead. So busy is he that he has not time to consider how many monuments crumble, how often names are forgotten!”
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The contrast between the beautiful, broad, unalloyed peace of Nature—calm, passive, silent, unfathomable,—and our own everyday worries—paltry, sorrow-laden, strife-tormented, puts me beside myself as I keep staring at the hazy, distant, blue line of trees which fringe the fields across the river.
Where Nature is ever hidden, and cowers under mist and cloud, snow and darkness, there man feels himself master; he regards his desires, his works, as permanent; he wants to perpetuate them, he looks towards posterity, he raises monuments, he writes biographies; he even goes the length of erecting tombstones over the dead. So busy is he that he has not time to consider how many monuments crumble, how often names are forgotten!”
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![Cormac McCarthy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1611995562i/4178._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
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