Mariel Hemingway Quotes

1. I've been depressed. I've had suicidal thoughts. I realize I'm not really full-on there because I never could plan it. But the fact of the matter is, there is a way out, there is help.

2. I've certainly made bad decisions about food in the past I thought I was healthy when my diet was actually causing tremendous damage to my body.

3. 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.

4. The "Hemingway curse" was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with...The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.






5. 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.

6. 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.

7. I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

8. Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

9. I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

10. I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.




11. 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.

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

13. 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.



14. 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.

15. Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.


16. I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

17. I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

18. It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.




19. My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

20. 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.

21. Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.





22. We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

23. 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.

24. 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.





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

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

29. 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.

30. 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.


31. 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.

32. I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

33. 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.



34. 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.

35. Basically, I came to yoga and meditation so I could undo some of my past, and I believe that you can do that through a combination of things.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.


39. I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

40. 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.


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