Brain food

If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.

Let’s start by taking a smallish nap or two.

Having compassion for yourself means that you honour and accept your humanness.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

The most powerful tech companies in the world are not neutral platforms. They are shaping our thoughts, behaviours and relationships.

Where you stumble and fall, there you discover gold.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Emotions are now categorised, celebrated, vilified, repressed, manipulated, humiliated, adored and ignored. Rarely, if ever, are they simply honoured.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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

We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavored to live with the land; they seemed to live off it. I was taught to preserve, never to destroy.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Writing is not an escape. It’s a way I connect to myself, to get to know myself better.

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,

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

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

Sometimes you don’t feel the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.