“Karma means that you can change your destiny, not simply be ruled by it.”

If you learn to laugh at your own stupidity, all your rubbish will turn into manure very fast. And manure is good for growth.

In maintaining distance from your thought and emotion, you can become available to the grace of the greatest beings.

Fulfillment of Life Is In its Inclusiveness, Not In its Exclusiveness.

Yoga means to become flexible – not just physically but in every way. That means wherever you are, you are fine.

Every human being aspires for health and wellbeing. True health fundamentally means to be in tune with nature, both inner and outer.

Essentially, karma means moving life from compulsive reaction to conscious action.

The path is the destination, and the destination is hidden in the path, as the Creator is hidden in creation.

Slow death is painful for both the Dying & the Living.

Insight is not about arriving at better perspectives for the existing situation but seeing new possibilities. What you need for this is clarity within yourself.

Anything yields to you only to the extent you pay attention to it.

My mother set the ambiance for me, without which I would not be what I am.

Society should not shape individual human consciousness. Human consciousness should shape society.

No Limits Have Been Fixed To Your Mind. You Can Make It Mundane Or Magical.

The mind is an endless game. You should not play it all the time.

If you are constantly aware of your mortal nature, you will only do what truly matters.

If you break the shell of your personality, you will simply be present – as life is, as the Divine is, just a Presence.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.

Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it’s always constant.

We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I’m basically the same person I was when I won ‘Idol,’ or when I was 10.

Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.