Women are the nourishing power of the Universe. Whoever has deep respect for women of the world, will remain free from diseases.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.

Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

Doubt is a lot like faith

Some things are more than we can understand.

THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.