I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.

When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.

In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.

When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.