I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.
Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
The contemplation of consciousness—which is the contemplation of no-thing whatsoever—is endlessly fascinating. It’s like staring at a candle in a dark night—you find yourself mesmerized by something that is unchanging yet infinitely compellin...
The divine is in the present and you must be present to experience it. When you vacate the present and recede into your mind, allowing worries or work to remove you from the moment, you leave the plain upon which the divine dwells. When you are const...
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness
Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.
A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
