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I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

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.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.