When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I am two with nature.

Let go of yesterday.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Beware the hobby that eats.