“If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.”
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“The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.”
“The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.”
“The night is just a part of the day”
“Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.”
“We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.”
“Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.”
“I go to an acting class every Sunday.”
“Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls”
“I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.”
“Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.”
“You can shave my head if you need to; it doesn't bother me.”
“Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.”
“Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.”
“Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.”
“It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.”
“Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.”
“A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.”
“Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.”
“It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.”