If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it's in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting for your car to be fixed, sometimes you see it while in bed with someone you love, sometimes you find it while you're meditating on a lone mountain.

You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.