“I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.” ShouldDown AndRelaxContemplatingEnergetic Author:Sylvester McCoy
“Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.” ThinkingKnowsShouldBelieveRealityBuddhismTruth IsSacredScriptureBuddhistMeant To BeContemplatingSacred Scripture Author:Ajahn Sumedho
“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.” IfsShouldMindFeelingsRealityNamesStarsSkyColdFameEternalSilentDelicateContemplatingSolitarySublimeAbyssAbstractionTranslationsPosterityFirmamentTwinkling Author:William Hazlitt
“The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.” WorldShouldWeaponsConcernNuclearContemplationIranContemplatingNuclear Weapons Author:Daniel Fried
“I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.” MenShouldHeavenStarsEffortAtomsDiscoveringContemplatingSmallestShort SightedDiscovering The Truth Author:Jean de la Bruyere