Sleep, as Shakespeare once observed and insomniacs know, possesses great restorative powers:

(In the interests of full disclosure, only one of the following quotes has anything to do with the themes typically associated with “Mediation Quote of the Week”.)

Today is Opening Day–New Year’s Day for baseball fans. In celebration, here are three of my favorite baseball quotes:

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

~A. Bartlett Giamatti

That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.

~Bill Veeck

Let the games begin.