The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

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.

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

Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.