Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.
It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.
Each of us can make a great difference in the lives of other people, particularly as we move along the Success Process ourselves growing in strength, gaining experience and knowledge.
To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on what moves us most swiftly toward our goals, and go after them with determination and single-mindedness.
I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.
My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.
A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.
In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody.