Mindful Consideration Quotes

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.