Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.