People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

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

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.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

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.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

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

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

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

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Little things affect little minds.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

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.

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

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

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.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

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

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I never make conscious decisions.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

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.

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

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.