It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
I think a lot, but I don't say much.
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
I'm more of a listener than a talker.
I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
I'm an old soul. When I was a kid all the kids would be playing and I would be sitting on the steps with the teachers just watching.
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.
I've always been quiet, more of an observer.
I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.
I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.
The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.
Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.
I’m a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.
I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.
You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
