When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

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

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.