The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine, expand your awareness, or reach enlightenment. But this cannot be a haphazard journey that falters and wanders off the path. It's easy for that to happen when a crisis develops. Sudden losses and setbacks shake everyone up; those who keep moving forward are buoyed by knowing that their path cannot be destroyed, only interrupted.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

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.

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.