And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

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

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.