Susan Powter Quotes

I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.

I was always inclined towards spiritualism but was afraid that I would become a sanyasin if I pursued it actively.