The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.

Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.