Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers, and generate options.

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.

My most recent purchase was a black lace corset.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.