Michael Keaton Quotes

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

I aspire only to silence.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Prayer is where the action is.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.

My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.

Silence is the most powerful state.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

I feel like it is important to make sure you are always praying, always talking to have clarity of mind and peace.