From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.