I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.