Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

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.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.