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

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

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.

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

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

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.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

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.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

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

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

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 more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

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 think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

To be awake is to be alive.

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

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I am in my own head most of the time.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

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.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.