The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Never get out of bed before noon.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

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.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

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

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

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.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

I have no trouble sleeping.

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.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

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.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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.

I love the sea.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.