“It’s all in the mind.”

It is an outrage that people can take other people’s lives when they obviously haven’t got their own lives in order.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street; if you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature.

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don’t want to die, you don’t get born!

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

With our love, we could save the world.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Heaven and hell is right now. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

You’ve got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

The noblest mind the best contentment has.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.