Life the muscles in your feet and legs from your hips and belly. Feel your chest and neck get heavy with blood. Feel your legs lifting more and getting stronger.

Taste is the most incredible bonus to any experience this world has to offer.

Ask if, to relax yourself, you are inflicting pain or inflicting suffering.

Ask yourself if you know the difference between pain and suffering.

Purge all attachments and toxins. For a greater challenge, invite suffering.

You will know when your suffering has ended because you will still feel pain but you will feel gratitude for not suffering any longer.

Enslaved peoples need a voice so that we do not become enslaved by our own ignorance.

My cell phone knows me better than anybody else and I am grateful to have a tool showing me more of what I can trust will help me unwind.

“The mind is like monkeys at the zoo; the monkeys at the zoo swing from tree to tree. Nobody can stop them. They can only be watched, or observed, or noticed” Sometimes all you can do is notice how crazy the ‘monkeys’ are, decide to laugh,or just realize they’re only ‘thoughts.’”

We do not worship the same as our Fathers but we worship to be as our Fathers.

Forcing yourself into horrifying memories of self will bring you great balance of spirit, because as they say, good outweighs evil.

The ghosts of those I’ve harmed in life will follow me as spirits in death so I must remember them in life.

Do not expect to sleep unassisted after great meditation.

Conquer the dragons and tigers ripping at your arms and hunching you over with weight.

Strength. Courage. Integrity. Wisdom. Every day is given.

Feel pain every day to remind yourself that you are a god

Find your arteries. Lighten your body. Feel loose and ready.

Sadr Mohra

Bone and muscles surrounded by skin.

Floating in the water that at the same time you’re sinking in.

Lite on your feet Soft on your soul.

Preparing for prosperity

Lifting your body for you

Softening the blows of life

Wakin’ up stiff! Comin’ home loose. THAT’S a great day!

Body movin’! Body movin’! Ain’t no sounds but it sounds so soothin’!

Givin’ up on your body? You can still lift right? You’re relaxed right? You’re ready right? You’re loose right? You’re hot right? You’ve got more than one part right? Let’s get it? We’re movin’! You’re movin’!

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one, it flies as well as creeps.

Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

In any bureaucracy the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.