Simplify, simplify.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Each day provides its own gifts.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

I am in my own head most of the time.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

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.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I don’t try to control my days.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

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.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.