Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

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.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.