I like to let things breathe.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I don’t try to control my days.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

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

To be awake is to be alive.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

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

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

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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.

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

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

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

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Sometimes I lose my temper.