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.
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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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
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I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.
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I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
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I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.
- Mariel Hemingway Quote

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.
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