James Frey Quotes

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

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

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

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

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

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.

Solitude helps you reflect.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

I aspire only to silence.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I love silence.