I'm not a big slasher film fan.
I've been through a lot. It doesn't make me enlightened, or this or that, but I've had a handful of experiences that have given me some information that I can share with others.
World music is music from everywhere: music that creates bridges, music that unites hearts and cultures, music that brings peace.
Sometimes you can be with a group of people and feel so much love for them while you're looking around and then you get to yourself and you go, "Ugh. "
Kirtan is for all people. There are no experts, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves. Kirtan allows us to enter into a mystery world-a world where all the logic of our minds, all the condition and learning are left outside. And in this mystery, we create a temple inside of our hearts, a place of refuge, a place of love, a place of just being.
I feel that all the experiences I've gone through in my life, the joyful ones and the painful ones, they add to the picture and completeness of who I am.
Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space — digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.
The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience. . . to be influenced by reasonable arguments. . . and the appeal to the emotions. . . and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.
I am the ambassador to the world. I use music to talk to the world - to try to unite masses. To try to spark conversations. To try and evoke legislation to change that'll really be for the people. That's behind-the-scenes kind of thing for me. And that's what the music is for me.
What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.