You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

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.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

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.

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

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

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.

Let go of yesterday.

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

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

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

I want to be all used up when I die.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

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

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

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.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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.‘

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

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 think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

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

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.

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.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

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.

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.

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

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

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

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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