serene contemplation Quotes

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

Silence does good to the soul.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.