The less your needs, the stronger your integrity.
People often ask me, what is enlightenment? I tell them, caring – that’s all there is to enlightenment.
Law must never be taken as gospel – today’s law may become tomorrow’s crime, today’s crime may become tomorrow’s law.
A police officer oblivious to their errors and shortcomings is no different from the Gestapo. Such police may be suitable in Nazi Germany, Imperialist Britain, Confederate America or the Amazon jungle, but they have no place in a society of civilized beings.
Till luxury becomes a thing of the past, equality will remain a thing of the future.
No judgment, no mockery, no grudge, no assumption – just fall. Fall head over heels for the world, like you did for your first love. Remember the loss of appetite, remember the sleeplessness, remember the constant desire to see them – once you feel that kind of intense attachment to the world, that day the world will have a true lover – that day the society will have a high voltage human.
Average people measure themselves by the amount of pleasure they can buy for themselves, reformers measure themselves by the amount of pain they can bear for others.
I do not want your blind and rigid loyalty towards my ideas, I want you to explore, I want you to expand, I want you to expand to such an extent that even my ideas become obsolete.
Not all cops are bent, but all departments have bent cops.
What is divinity, if not an everyday sense of kindness!
Don’t seek for someone you can talk sense with, seek for someone you can talk nonsense with.
Counterfeit freedom brings only apathy. True freedom brings responsibility.
A homeless guy lifts a bread out of hunger, it’s called burglary, but a cool-looking guy rips off an entire population, while spreading disparities wider than ever, it’s called entrepreneurship. What a world! What a pathetic world!
Raise your heart, not your hand.
Leeches live by guns, legends live by ideas.
When you can’t live a day without helping others – when you can’t breathe without watching someone smile because of you – when you can’t even taste the food until you know that someone is able to put food on the table for their family because of your kindness – that day you’d know what it is to be human.
This is the only secret to life – serve others as your own reflection.
Only truth in the cosmos is love.
Concern for the people should burn like the fire of God in your veins.
When love overwhelms fear, on its own order will appear.