It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.