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

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

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

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Life is a dead-end street.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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

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

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I’m just a simple country girl.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

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

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.