“Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcomed.”

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.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it’s great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.

[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

When we speak we create.

I’m really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.

The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds