Slamming Doors & Meditation

I've a friend who is always in a hurry.  He arrives at meetings in a hurry, barely on time or a few minutes late.  He must catch his breath.  He seems to always have another engagement at the end of the meeting and has allowed barely sufficient time.  He is a minister and he seems to always be in a hurry. When I've asked about his prayers, he tells me how he has told God all that is on his schedule as well as mind and how he asks for God's help.  I've often wondered if he ever thinks that God may have something on God's mind which God would like to share with him.  I wonder how would he have time to stop the hurry and listen.  In 1966 Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, visited Thomas Merton at the Abbey of Gethsemani.  When asked about teaching meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh replied, "We don't teach meditation to the young monks.  They are not ready for it until they stop slamming doors." (Richard Rohr, What The Mystics Know, pg 35.)