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.

The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events.

You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.