When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.