If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.

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

In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.

Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.