Brain food

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.

If we move through our day with an open awareness of the many good things around us, we correct the brain’s built-in negativity bias.

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

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.

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

Patience is also a form of action.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

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

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.

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

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

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

Eating well is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

We overeat, not because we enjoy food too much; it is because we don’t enjoy it enough.

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

Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow’s trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

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

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.