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One of the few things we can actually control in life is what we put in our bodies. I found that very empowering.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.