Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.
Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.
I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes.
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
Time was not passing. . . it was turning in a circle.
People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through. '
In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.