The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.

Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.

I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.

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.

When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.