Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now
In my personal life, I am very contemplative.
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
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.