In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

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.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

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

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

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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

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.

Simplify, simplify.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

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

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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.

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

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 don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

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.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

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.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

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.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.