At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation. – Eknath Easwaran
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. – Paramahansa Yogananda
Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I dont agree with organized religion in that respect. – Hunter Parrish
My books are elegiac in the sense that theyre odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. – Richard Russo
