Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.