What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I had approached it from t….

Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in….

I am just diving into life again. I just have nothing new to offer right now as an idea for a book. I feel like if I were to write something, I would….

If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this jo….

In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more t….

I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong..

Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York ….

What I do is work for three or four years and then I take a year off, and then I come back again and work for three or four years and then take anoth….

The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at the same time. In the fou….

There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people ar….

I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for In….

The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to ….

In the year that I take off, I don't have any goals. I just surrender to experiences like traveling or learning yoga and meditation or just living in….

My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, ….

I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deepl….

In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes ….

Regarding some of the super powers that I reference, like walking on water, I haven't seen people do that, but once you get into the science, a lot o….

When I started on the path, too, I really thought I would become a yogi in a cave, but I didn't have clarity about my path. When I evolved in the ash….

The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 ….

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now..

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world..