Ben Fountain Quotes

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

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

For me, every hour is grace.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

When you see the ocean and the infinite, it empties your mind.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

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

Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.