I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.