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"I do a lot of work with mental health and wellness, which I also believe has a lot to do with your lifestyle as well - what you're eating, how you're living, what you're thinking. How you live your life can affect your mental state."
"Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy."
"There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make."
"There are so many things that we love. Whatever it is, there's a lot of really important things that affect how we live our lives, the simplicity of our life, so we love organizations that help make the planet cleaner and healthier, a place where you can be more connected."
"But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing."
"How you live your life can affect your mental state."
"There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves."
"We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't."
"Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life."
"The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice."
"Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people."
"We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up."
"I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you."
"Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct line to what's been going on in your life and how you've been feeling and why you think the way you think. I do think there is a genetic predisposition for mental illness, for depression, for suicide, but I also think that lifestyle can change things. If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems."
"Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing."
"We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand."
"I'm really excited to act again because when I started out, there was an innocent sort of perception of the world that was coming though me, and I think now through a lot of experience and life and understanding, I've come full circle to having a purer response to things. So my craft will be really interesting to work from this place because I think acting is about being in tune with yourself - or maybe the struggle to be in tune with yourself."
"The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing."
"I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre."
"I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really."