Shinzo Abe Quotes

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.

It was Helen Hunt who taught me to incorporate a consistent meditation practice. Her consistency - even when she was at her busiest and most public - was inspiration to me.

We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Meditation is culture.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating.

There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.