Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower.

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust form our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.

When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

. . . when you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.

Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire to survive.

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.

the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.