Occupation: Vocalist Birth: May 31, 1947
Chanting is the main thing in my life..
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourse….
All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody..
If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emo….
I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do..
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt..
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it..
Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit u….
Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being..
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds..
Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we….
Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful pr….
I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real..
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing..
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?.
Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love..
When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, an….
If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exact….
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them..
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that's why I sing. Whether it's at the Grammys, w….
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go..