Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.