We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

How old are you? If your first reflex is to reply with your chronological age, the number on your birth certificate, you are only one-third correct. There are actually two additional, and more important, indicators of age. And the exciting news is that it is within your power to adjust both of these other "age indicators" and truly grow younger and live longer.

It shapes my reality, where I was born, in two ways. One, I was burdened by the culture I was born in. And secondly, it gave me a context with which to actually see with wise eyes as well. So culture is both a burden as well as an opportunity for us to look at the world through eyes of wisdom.