Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces.

We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.

I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.

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