From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.