Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

While most people are conditioned to see the body as a biological machine, you can begin to view it as a field of energy, transformation, and intelligence that is constantly renewing itself. Begin to notice both your internal dialogue and how you speak about your body and aging.

Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.