Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?

If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.