Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

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

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

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

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I like to let things breathe.

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?

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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

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

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I want the world to see my body.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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?

The first wealth is health.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

My fat never made me less money.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

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

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

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.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.