The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Want less, need less, live more.

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

Women should be obscene, not heard.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

God is only where you let Him in.

Philosophically, I feel that India will progress only if we work as teams.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.