Sleep is the best meditation.

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

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

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

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.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

I sell escapism.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

I like to take it easy.

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.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

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.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

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.