“We arrived from New York after a daylong slog through airports and planes and traffic. It was 10: 00 p.m. local time, but my body had no idea if it was night or day. Krishna was hungry, so I found ...”

“Once in a while we burned a wok trying to make our churan, and Jima, Bhanu, or another matriarch would banish us from the kitchen. You shouldve told us, theyd say. We wouldve helped you. Youre not ...”

“Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the me...”

“I once asked her if she was happy. That depends on what I am able to get done today, she said, laughing. She told me that the completion of her daily tasks was the only thing she felt she had contr...”

“But because divorce was so unheard of in middle-class Indian society, people looked at divorces with a sort of incredulous shock and wonder, as if they were somehow criminals. They were ostracized ...”

“Its funny to me that most of the cooking in the world is done by women, and yet when you look at modern Western cuisine, its largely based on what a few dead Frenchmen have opined to be the correct...”

“I believe in a higher consciousness. I also believe that nature is supremely conscious. A tree is more conscious than we are.”

“Many are concerned with going to heaven or hell, But fail to realize that you can be living in heaven or hell right here on Earth.”

“We are barely conscious. With a higher consciousness we can open the door between infinite possibilities.”

“Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!”

“They looked so familiar that for a moment Claude feared he had doubled back to Mrs. Merritt's city, until a sudden wave of water blinded his wipers and drove him along with everyone else to the cur...”

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”