When we're passionate about something, we have a positive attitude and embrace each day with a new outlook.

To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.