Dan Brown Quotes

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

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

I've had a Hindu upbringing. There's a lot about it I think is cool. Temples are amazing. It's a nice vibe when people are praying. And there's lots about it where I understand why they believe those things. But I'm not practising.

I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.

I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about it.

I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

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.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

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

“Hinduism” is of relatively recent coinage; only since modern times has the single word been used to refer to what in reality is a huge variety of faiths, sects and cults.

Hindu civilization is a common history, common heroes, a common literature, common art, a common law and a common jurisprudence, common fairs and festivals, rites and rituals, ceremonies and sacraments..

The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.