You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

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.

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.

There is so much that people take for granted.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

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.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

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

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

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

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

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.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

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

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

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

Never find fault with the absent.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘