To be awake is to be alive.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Children make your life important.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.