If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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.‘

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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.

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.

When digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

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

I like to let things breathe.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

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

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

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

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.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

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.

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’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!