What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.

I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth.

To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

What we do to others will come back to us.

I killed you. And you. And you.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.