Brain food

Some beautiful paths cannot be discovered without getting lost.

- Erol Ozan

Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake.

- Jaeda DeWalt

The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday – unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.

- Sukhraj S. Dhillon

Healthy striving is self-focused: ‘How can I improve?’ Perfectionism is other-focused: ‘What will they think?’

- Dr Brené Brown

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, we have to. It is an emergency.

- Bjork

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

- Jim Carrey

While many silently suffer inside a suit of shining armour, the truly courageous take off their armour and allow themselves to be vulnerable.

- Mindarma

This is your lifestyle, you can be what you wanna be, you can do what you wanna do, feel that cool breeze on your face again, feel the rain on your hair, running back to

- King Stingray

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

- E. Joseph Cossman

Like the lines on your face, the answer is here, and the light in your eyes, don’t hide it away, like the dots on the shells, they shine.

- Yothu Yindi

And now I’m trying to do the little things, to get me through the day. I don’t know who I can tell, or how to talk about the ways, I’m not okay. Is that okay

- Mo’Ju

We don’t have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the clear water of our heart.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.

- Sylvia Plath

You have to be odd to be number one.

- Dr Seuss

Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

- Tara Brach

Guilt is like any other energy: you can’t accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in – you have to let it go. Face the truth,

- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

The secret of change is to spend all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

- Socrates

Our minds are shaped by the modern world but originate in nature, and we have suffered as a result of this disconnect.

- Bill Bailey

You’ve been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

- Louise Hay