Contemplation Quotes

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "One thought fills immensity" "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you" "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?" "We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness" "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action" "The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me" "To sit and dream is to sit and dream" "A man prayed, and at first, he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer is listening." "Turn off your mind relax and float downstream" "Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time" "It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself" "And in the end we are all just dreamers in an endless universe" "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past"