. . . 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.

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.

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

Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're alreadydead.

The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

Hell is God's Absence.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess.