The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.

We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.

Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

I'm reconnecting, I'm deepening, I'm opening, I'm releasing negativity and negative thoughts and all the limitations I carry around with me - again and again and again and again and again and again. And again! And that's the only thing that keeps me alive.

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

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.