Mariel Hemingway quotes

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. (Mariel Hemingway)
I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. View quote
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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living. View quote
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I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work. View quote
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For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent. (Mariel Hemingway)
My problems aren't so different from anybody else. View quote
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Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing. View quote
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What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared. View quote
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I think we should be passionately curious about what we do. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing. (Mariel Hemingway)
Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really. View quote
Mariel Hemingway