Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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

On all the peaks lies peace.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

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

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.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.