“Chanting is the main thing in my life.”

I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.

Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?

We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.

The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.

Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.

Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.

Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.

I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.

Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.