Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.