By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

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.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.