A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
I've always found the rain very calming.
Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.
There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.
Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.
As crazy as it may sound, it's like my tranquil place, where I sit, and I have my candy for a minute, and I just space out, and it's just me and my candy.
I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.
I find that Bach is appealing to a lot of different audiences. It really hits people at their core in different ways, but it also creates a meditative space. I just feel like I can play it, and it reaches people.
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
My guilty pleasure is listening to Enya in the bathtub. I do bubbles. I do essential oils. Candles, if they're around.
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
I actually find flying therapeutic.
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.
