By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

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

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.