Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.

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.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

Sometimes, you have to be your own hero.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.