I always suggest to women to take time away from the norm. And that takes a lot of courage. Most people can't do that, they can't loose and run, and say, 'Look, I'm going to just have an entirely new environment, devoid of all the habitual concerns of the day.'

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

I think path in spirituality chooses us. I doubt seriously that we really have much choice in the matter.

You're born in a certain time, your budvi, or the way to mind, or the psyche of it all, understands the time in which you were born, and so already information is adapted by the mind of a person born in a certain time, that's why we're so different from our parents, and our parents from theirs.

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.

When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.