When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

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.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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

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.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

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.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I’m tender on the inside.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

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

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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

I got my own back.