“We spend a lot of time looking for happiness when the world right around us is full of wonder. To be alive and walk on the Earth is a miracle, and yet most of us are running as if there were some better place to get to. There is beauty calling to us every day, every hour, but we are rarely in a position to listen. The basic condition for us to be able to hear the call of beauty and respond to it is silence. If we don’t have silence in ourselves - if our mind, our body, are full of noise - then we can’t hear beauty’s call.”

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it…”

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

“When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It’s just Self. It’s only ever Self.”

“Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.”

“An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function in a healthy way.”

“Nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water. Trees don’t eat their own fruit. The Sun doesn’t shine for itself. A flower’s fragrance is not for itself. Living for each other is the Rule of Nature.”

“There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe… and relax. This is tantra.”

“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 separateness.”

“Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.”

“Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.”