We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

No matter how many possibilities turn into reality, an infinite number remain.

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.