If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.