Why should happiness be a birthright? Why should our spiritual aspirations be focused on the pursuit of inner peace alone? Did God create the universe so that you and I, at the beginning of the 21st century, could be happy?

I believe we have reached a time in history when God, which I would describe as the energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process, is now completely dependent upon us.

If 50 years ago you were to tell somebody that Americans would teach Enlightenment in India and that Asian seekers would come to California to learn about what the Buddha taught from an American Jew, they would never have believed you.

When it comes to telling us how to relate to some of our biggest global challenges, I wonder if the most spiritually enlightened among us might be missing the boat right now.

Are you thinking your own thoughts? Are you living your own lives?

God is love. The reason the love that is God can set us free is because that unquatifiable peace was the very nature of existence before the universe was born.

Visionaries are living for what has not yet occurred because their attention is riveted by the promise of the possible.

When human beings are in touch with this powerful creative positivity and inspiration it provides the boundless energy source from which we have historically been able to move mountains.

I believe that it is possible to take responsibility for the entirety of who you are in such a profound way that you can consciously choose who you want to be.

When time began, for an unknown reason, something came from nothing. Suddenly, an impulse emerged -- the impulse to become, to create, to evolve.

The path of transformation, reduced to its simplest terms, is the shift from the ego's negative relationship to life to the authentic self's positive relationship to life, which I call "plus one."

If Spirit, or God, is that which is always Highest, how does that affect our perspectives and our judgments? Are they always informed by the natural hierarchy inherent at every level of the very fabric of the cosmos?

Here is a video from a seminar in London, in which I answer a participant's question about reincarnation.

When we use the word "love," what exactly are we talking about? This is complex and confusing territory, for sure.

In the new enlightenment, the point is no longer merely the liberation of the individual; it's the evolution of self, culture and cosmos through the individual