Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.

If you look at anything physical, you find out that at the quantum level, it is non-physical.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.