As a physician who was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, getting drunk on weekends, stressed out about having 35 patients in the hospital, and not being able to help either them or myself, I had my existential crisis way before I met Maharishi. I did meet him and he was an influence, but I met many other people as well.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.