Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

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.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

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

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

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.

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

Nothing is worth more than this day.

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.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

I love being active.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

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

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

The only thing you ever have is now.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.