Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.

Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.

If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.