I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

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.

When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.

If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.