People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

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.

When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.