The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

What we are doing in the United States is we have launched a television station for mainstream audiences, which means whether they are native Americans or people living from any part of the world.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Music is a form of prayer.

To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.