Simplify, simplify.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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

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.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

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.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

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.

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.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

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

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

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

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I don’t try to control my days.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

I like to let things breathe.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Forget the past.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

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.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?