Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water’s waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.