The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.

Let's just chant and be good people, alright?

When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the sense that you can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. The true guru is someone who's transcended all that. And we don't know anything about that.