The more we slow down the thinking process, the more control we have over our lives.

Everywhere, knowing how to stop short of satiety helps you to savor life and, more important, helps you to be free.

Energetic movement is not an option, not a luxury, but an imperative on the spiritual path if we are to do the work that needs doing. Young

all truly creative people know that no sharp line lies between work and other activities. Work should challenge us — be difficult, if you will — but that is no reason for us not to find satisfaction in it.

At work, as elsewhere, we need to cultivate discrimination so we can decide what is important and then proceed to do it at a moderate pace.

many injurious habits result from our efforts to fill empty time.

first. In a sense, it comes down to attention. When we are preoccupied with ourselves — our thoughts, our desires, our preferences — we cannot help becoming insensitive to others’ needs. We can pay attention only to so much, and all our attention rests on ourselves. When we turn away from ourselves, even if only a little, we begin to see what is re

perhaps most precious of all, you will not ignore the distress or joy of others, because in looking into their eyes you will be looking truly into their hearts.

Religion is realization: making the truths of the world’s great scriptures a reality in daily life.