Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.