Danny Boyle Quotes

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.

We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.

Just be open, life is about a constant journey and I'm very spiritual, but I'm also in touch with what's going on around me and who I am, and you have to know yourself. So for me, that's what keeps me going is just being interactive.

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.