Scheduling pauses

I'm reading a book called "Seeing What Is Sacred...Becoming More Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life"
In the book he puts emphasis on the importance of reflecting ..looking below the surface of "mundane" things for those spiritual moments. Many times we miss them because we pack our days with "stuff" and don't actually take the time needed to look and listen to what's really important.
In the chapter I just finished he compares it to a paragraph in small print with no pauses.

"The pauses give resonance to the words, giving them a place to live in our heart. That is why it's important to schedule pauses into our day. The pauses give resonance to the words we read, whether those words are spoken through a Scripture that comes to mind or through a billboard that blurs by us on the freeway or through a boy at the roller rink.
A busy schedule crowds out those pauses. When life pressures us to put as much as we can into a day, we start reducing the type, combining paragraphs, editing out the spaces, eliminating the margins.
And after a while, we simply stop reading."