Anthony Hopkins Quotes

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!