Richard Foster Quotes

I like nothing more than walking down a country lane or along a mountain path - it's not proof that there is anything bigger than ourselves, but I feel very much at peace.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

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

My best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all God’s children; then you will be in love with all.

Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.