If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

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

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

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

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.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

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.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

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.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

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

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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

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.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

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!

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

Forever is composed of nows.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.