People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.