A Moment of Zen
From a person simply closing his or her eyes for a moment on the subway ride home to the annual gathering of over 2 million pilgrims traveled to Mecca in the annual Hajj, the rites and rituals of prayer can be as personal or as ritualized as one’s spiritual self might require. The stopping for a moment’s meditation in hopes of a revelation as to how to proceed is a universal “medicine” we all need sometimes.
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
– Henri Cartier–Bresson
“Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.”
– Saint Francis de Sales
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
– Voltaire
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
– Dalai Lama
“Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.”
– Madame de Stael
