Contemplative Gifts

"George is a deep thinker, but his thoughts rarely come to the surface."

No caption (A prisoner watches a television with bars and clouds in a sky simulating the view outside a window).

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

"He's got no clue how easy he has it compared to his ancestors."

Humans...What is their purpose?

"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.

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

'Some days I just feel so stuck in a rut that I wish I'd never been invented!'

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

Zenemies.

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

Pastorius wonders why.

"The overthinker"

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

Rodin's Thinker.

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The 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!"

'This course in philosophy is not designed to teach you how to make a living. I will be teaching you how to make a life.'

The Thinker?

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

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

'I warned him about thinking the unthinkable!'

Business man reading 'Thinking Outside the Chair'

"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."

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

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

Sign on wall of spacious empty hall of museum: 'Air & Space Exhibit'

World crisis

"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?"

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

'I believe you're thinking of leaving us, Brother?'

James Baldwin