Thanksgiving provides a formal context in which to consider the instances of kindness that have enlightened our lives, for moments of grace that have gotten us through when all seemed lost. These are fine and sentimental subjects for contemplation.
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Quotes tagged ‘Contemplation’
Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.
— Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Jim Hopper, David Harbour, imdb.com
I think with one match, you can destroy, you can rebuild. With one match you can take down this whole room. Yet at the same time with one match we could take down this whole room and start something new.
I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That’s all.
I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It’s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don’t meet up right.
Maybe that's how I needed to be: more appreciative, and less contemplative. Not every journey needs to be observed from the outside.
Sometimes, it's best to sit in traffic and stare and think does that guy really love Holland Oats that much?
Nothing that happened in one's so called 'virtual life' can ever be fully disconnected from what happened in your so called 'real life'.
Realness might be more of like a continuum than an actual thing.
Ultimately, selfhood and relationships and experiences and FIFA playing and whatever else are varying degrees of real rather than simply real or not.
Philosophical reflection is a bad idea because, if you think you can find some basis for why you should live, why you should be moral, why you should do what you do – any kind of rational basis, you discover finally that there is no basis. You can always keep saying, ‘Why? Why? Why?’, until you unde…
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.
Be like the flowing river, Silent in the night. Be not afraid of the dark. If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back. If there are clouds in the sky, Remember, clouds, like the river, are water. So, gladly reflect them too, In your own tranquil depths