A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.