Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.
The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
Don't give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the sense that you can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. The true guru is someone who's transcended all that. And we don't know anything about that.
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
