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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

Somebody who is purified with life enough would be able to read your feeling before it becomes a word in your mouth. It is not very hard to understan….

A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I ap….

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….

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him..

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 ….

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 ….

When I came to the U.S., Kraft sponsored my green card, so I was at Kraft foods and I owed them, I felt. But then as my life purified more and more, ….

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….

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….

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….

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