As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.
From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
Victims always feel alone and helpless.
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.
Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.
We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
