The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

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

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.