Freedom is not the mark of progress, responsibility is.
Without purpose, we are just good-looking animals.
Continue to exercise your imagination and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your will and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your conscience and it will take you higher.
It is high time that you break the shackles of separatism and with the glorious flames of love, compassion and humanism in heart, you assimilate the goodness from all around you. Let love and compassion reign over the modern human civilization and hatred be a matter of ancient history.
Freedom without accountability is animal freedom and freedom with accountability is human freedom or civilized freedom.
To awake or not to awake – that is the question.
When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life, the belief adorns that person with various positive psychological elements such as emotional stability, in times of distress and a highly functional moral compass. Here this belief has nothing to do with reality whatsoever, rather it serves the evolutionary purpose of self-preservation.
What’s the point of having a mind if it doesn’t mind the issues of the society!
Even the darkest night is no match for the rising sun.
If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.
The presence of law implies the presence of injustice, not justice.
To the law enforcement officials I say, “uphold not law, but justice, for when you uphold law, you need to explain yourself to your superiors, but when you uphold justice, you do not need to explain your actions to anyone, for your very actions will be the testament of justice”.
Pursue happiness and you’ll be unhappy, pursue purpose and you’ll be happy.
Ten footsteps with a purpose can give you more joy than a thousand footsteps without purpose.
By belittling others we only show how little and shallow we are.
Life has only one color that matters – humanity has only one character that matters – world has only one religion that matters – and that color, that character, that religion is love. All colors, characters and religions can exist either as reflections of love, or not at all.
Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.
In today’s world, money is like oxygen – lack of oxygen can kill you, so can too much of it.
I am not here to entertain you. I am here to make you think.
A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think “my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others’ are false”, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality.