Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

We pray God would do it our way

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

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