The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

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.

Healing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.

Because when the Creator of matter, tell you you matter, then you have a purpose and then you have self-esteem.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.