Divine Contemplative Gifts

"So it wasn't bullsh*t after all."

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."

"I want him to have the serenity to accept the things he can't pee on, the patience to pee on the things he can outside, and the wisdom to know the difference." "But I'll probably just take him to a trainer."

"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.

"The overthinker"

Pastorius wonders why.

"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?"

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

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

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

"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.'

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

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

"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!"

'I warned him about thinking the unthinkable!'

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

Jesus wept

World crisis

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

"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?"

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"I let go of all my earthly attachments, but there's one I can't seem to shake."

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

Soren Kierkegaard

'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?"