Break Time Contemplation Gifts

Lunch break.

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

Zenemies.

"I've switched my energy provider, and I switched my broadband provider. Now I want to switch my misery provider."

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

"I could catch a bicyclist, well maybe not a bicyclist, but I could catch a jogger, definitely."

"The overthinker"

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

'Are you not thinking what I'm not thinking?'

Rodin's Thinker.

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"After searching for the sun all night, it finally dawned on me..."

'You've had enough.'

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

"How come I can't remember what I forget, but I always remember that I forgot something!"

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'It's normal -- Enlightenment freaks a lot of people out.'

Out to Scrunch.

'Hey! - why bicker all evening when we could be watching a film about ideological genocide.'

'He has some unresolved issues.'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

'Water cooler's really busy this time of day,'

"Exactly what is this 'nothing' I've been hearing so much about?"

Soren Kierkegaard

"I got my wife a book on decluttering and the first thing to go was me."

'Have you ever imagined a world without stupid hypothetical questions?'

"No, wait. What if the cop character is the murderer, and the mobster guy is completely innocent?"

'I suppose you're wondering why you're not on it!'

"Autumn already? O.K., I'll come down."

The Deep Thinker