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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”

“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”

“Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.”

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.”

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

“During the time of stress, the “fight-or-flight” response is on and the self-repair mechanism is disabled. It is then when we say that the immunity of the body goes down and the body is exposed to the risk for disease. Meditation activates relaxation, when the sympathetic nervous system is turned off and the parasympathetic nervous system is turned on, and natural healing starts.”