It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public.

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.