Spend some time alone every day.
If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.
With genuine love and compassion, another person’s appearance or behavior has no effect on your attitude.
Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.
If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.
Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.
As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.
Real bliss is to have peace of mind.
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.
When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.