I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people's attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.
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.
I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.
My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
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.
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.