India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.