When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Service to humanity has no alternative

I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.