I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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.

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

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

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

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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.

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

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

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

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

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.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

It is important to remember yourself.

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.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

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

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

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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.

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.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

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

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.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

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.

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!

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Nothing is worth more than this day.