Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father. ”

Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull. ”

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker. ”

I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here. ”

I have discovered that inner search by far is the most uncharted domain and it needs great courage and determination to cut through the dense vegetation of the mind so to speak before arriving at the core. ”

It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but it's still my story, as I wrote it. The moment we or they make a movie, it's not my story anymore. There's a lot of letting go involved in the process. ”

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms. ”

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious. ”

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves. ”

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think is kind of impossible. ”