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

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

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

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Let go of yesterday.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

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

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!

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

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.

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

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.