What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.
There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.
Stay calm, stay safe and seek medical information only from trusted officials and actual healthcare experts.
A corrupt government is born not from corrupt politicians, but from corrupt citizens.
Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you.
Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it. Likewise, your consciousness is born in your brain, goes through various states in your lifetime and ultimately resolves into the brain.
Religion and politics together is the most dangerous of all combinations, when that religion, is not the true religion of kindness and love, but the religion of books, doctrines and priests.
The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.
If only one generation takes action in raising their children as humans, rather than raising boys and girls, the future human civilization shall get rid of the sinister phenomenon of misogyny sooner than you can imagine.
India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.
If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.
You know what it means to be human? It means justice coming out of your synapses – it means equality bursting out of your arteries – it means your footsteps causing an avalanche of acceptance.
Be mad – be drunk – be obsessed, not for a guru, messiah, doctrine or ideology, but for an idea – a novel, original idea with the potential for doing good in the world.
Bigotry, hate, bullying, perversion and discrimination must never be considered to be human rights, because if we do, then we will never in a million years be able to instill real justice, equality and acceptance in the human society.
Your selfishness is the cause of your sorrows.
No organization can stay uncorrupt for long, be it a political party, a religious institution or a charity foundation – sooner or later the instinctual evils of greed and cruelty overwhelm the organization, fueled by its authoritative control over people.
Nobody has it all figured out, not even me – anybody who thinks otherwise, is an idiot.
A huge portion of the human society runs on autopilot, under the authority of biases. That’s why, the world is infested with so many conflicts. Once the humans get hold of their biases instead of letting their biases get hold of them, all conflicts would vanish into thin air.
Call it order, call it chaos, it’s all in the brain.
The world doesn’t need more smart doctors, it needs more warm and wise doctors. Be the wisdom yourself – be the warmth yourself, and be the doctor that the doctors have forgotten to be, for it is time to save medicine, to save humanity.