I grabbed a corner and started to pray, trying -- with every fiber of my being -- to ignore my phone.
They huddled together, Amaro said, reflecting and praying, trying to process the senseless.
That first day I just sat on the ground, crying and praying, trying my phone again and again.
When I left 30 minutes later, I popped "Little Wild One" in the disc player and drove around for a while, thinking, praying, trying to breathe.
With Japan's horror still unfolding, there's nothing to do for the moment except watch, pray, and try to find some small ways to help people caught up in forces beyond their control.
Maybe not in age and physical appearance, but in the fact that all they do is pray and try to calmly talk to our patients.
When Yamaki takes Toya-san to the Buddha shrine in the garden of his house to pray and try to get the curse removed, she vents her feelings about the god's unfairness.
This doesn't mean that you don't need to study or pray but try to avoid addicting thing such as keep looking at a mirror, sit on Facebook, watching the favourite TV shows.
If you want to start praying effectively, try to set some time aside each day to pray.
My Jewish heritage is mixed — the tight scholastic rationalism of Vilna, in Lithuania, on my father's side, and the ecstatic Hasidic mysticism of Hungary's Carpathian Mountains, on my mother's — and, while praying, I try to touch both traditions.
