“God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.”

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God’s grace you still can’t make it.

Life goes on within you and without you.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you’re in your other suit. You can’t see it on this level, but it’s all right. Don’t worry.

We laughed a lot. That’s one thing we forgot about for a few years – laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.

Gossip is the Devil’s radio.

We’re God too but we don’t realise it.

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

The Lord is in everything that’s in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it’s really a reflection of God. You see it in other people – that’s him too, you know?

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

So it’s really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It’s you who decides.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you’re either very lucky person or you’re not.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

God doesn’t owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I’ve found is that explanations don’t comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

The perpetrators of the Inquisition – the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions – were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God – popes, bishops, friars, and priests.

Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.