“If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
As quoted in The Rainmaker : A Passion for Politics (1986) by Keith Davey, p. 57; also in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) by Connie Robertson, p. 439
“Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.”
Tamora Pierce book First Test
Source: First Test
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
“Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit” (1959)
“The L. A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.”
Mel Gibson (1956) American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
The New Yorker September 15 2003.
Jet Li (1963) Chinese martial artist and actor
As quoted in Jet Li Interview Transcript https://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/talkasia.li.script/ in CNN (January 29, 2003)
“Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
X, 17
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
Peg Bracken (1918–2007) American writer