Dorothy Day Quotes

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.

I meditate.' That's like saying 'I eat.' Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.