I can go all over the world with Skype.

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love,...

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

My belief is that I wasn’t born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have...

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and...

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken...

In India, there’s a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It’s called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

It is only when you begin to understand that if you and I are truly in love, if I go to the place in me that is love and you to the place in you...

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how...

I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, ‘My god, he’s going to know all the things I...

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That’s all I do all day.

I don’t really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled...

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together...

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges...

We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn’t want to go anywhere near...

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last...

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. ‘Death...

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for...

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship...

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.

When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success –...

I feel vulnerable because my mind – because of the stroke, my mind doesn’t focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don’t understand the world around me.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the...

I sit with people who are dying. I’m one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they’re dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you...

Pain is the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being....

Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.