Brain food

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

By taking just a few extra seconds to stay with a positive experience – even the comfort in a single breath – you’ll help turn a passing mental state into lasting neural structure.

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.

Racism is a disease in society. We’re all equal. I don’t care what their color is, or religion. Just as long as they’re human beings they’re my buddies.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.

…To find another’s voice, follow your own voice, wait until that voice becomes a private ear listening to another…

People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.

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,

The land is my mother. Like a human mother, the land gives us protection, enjoyment and provides our needs – economic, social and religious. We have a human relationship with the land: Mother, daughter, son.

Exercise has a more profound and sustained positive effect on mood, anxiety, cognition, energy, and sleep than any pill I can prescribe.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

Where you stumble and fall, there you discover gold.

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

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

This earth, I never damage. I look after. Fire is nothing, just clean up. When you burn, new grass coming up. That means good animal soon, Might be goanna, possum, wallaby. Burn him off, new

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