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" I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine. "

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" Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time. "

" You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway. "

" Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. "

" Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others. "

" I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? "

" I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are. "

" Passivity is the same as defending injustice. "

" The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality. "

" Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. "

" We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul. "

" Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. "

" For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. "

" Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally. "

" I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center. "

" Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. "

" Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other. "

" People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that. "

" I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet. "

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" 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. "

" All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome. "

" Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. "

" Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively. "

" Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious. "

" If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream. "