Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

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.

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.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

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.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Never find fault with the absent.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Peace begins with a smile.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

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.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

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

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

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

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

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.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

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.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Let go of yesterday.

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

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

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

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.