According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Devote yourself to reading of the Holy Scriptures.

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.