"You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio."
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"I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you."
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"If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age."
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"A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk.""
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"The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing."
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"To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an ice cream cone, coloring a picture, or jumping rope. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as a child and choose one of these activities to do today."
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"Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure."
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"As a physician who was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, getting drunk on weekends, stressed out about having 35 patients in the hospital, and not being able to help either them or myself, I had my existential crisis way before I met Maharishi. I did meet him and he was an influence, but I met many other people as well."
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"In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get caught up in a race against the clock, feeling like there's never enough time. We say things like "Time is flying," "Time is running out," or "There are never enough hours in the day.""
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"Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener."
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"Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even."
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"Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details."
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"Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall."
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"I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love."
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"Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do."
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"If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you."
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"Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities."
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"Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words."
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"The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present."
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"The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found."
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