Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

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

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

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.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

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

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

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.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

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

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

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

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.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

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.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

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

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

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

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.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.

Confine yourself to the present.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.