When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

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

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

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.

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.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

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

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I got my own back.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

I spend a lot of time reading.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

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

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I just don’t have time to get old!

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

We think too much and feel too little.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

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 shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I have no trouble sleeping.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.