One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I don’t snack. I don’t generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

To be awake is to be alive.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

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.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

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.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

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.

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

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.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

I just don’t have time to get old!

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?