We cannot educate the citizens of tomorrow based on the requirements of yesterday.
You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet.
Global harmony is only the reflection of humankind’s internal harmony.
Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that’s the root of all sorrows.
Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.
Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation.
Every generation needs caretakers – and the caretaker of your generation is you.
No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.
People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the Jew, a Muslim to the Muslim, a Hindu to the Hindu, an atheist to the atheist, but the brightest nightmare to the fundamentalist.
Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.
Forget the world, forget civilization, forget all those pompous ideas of progress and global goals, simply take a stand in your vicinity, in your locality, against discrimination, against prejudices, against corruption and harassment.
Help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power, not because you are good person, nor because you want to be adored, but because you are a real human – a real human of the civilized society.
Burn yourself so that the cold world can have some warmth.
One bridge of acceptance trumps a hundred walls of discrimination.
You can never be a first class human being, until you have learnt to have some regard for human frailty.
Human you are, and your purpose is to live for others as much as you live for yourself.
All great achievements of humanity begin with the madness of a few lion-hearts.
Awake and Arise my sisters and brothers to slogan for all of humankind. We are the light and we are the might that’s needed during this ominous tide.
We’d still be living in caves if a few crazy individuals didn’t push things forward – change is scary but it’s necessary for the progress of a species.
The world needs a janitor, to clean its stains of barbarianism – the world needs a mechanic, to fix its broken conscience in the fog of socio-cultural conditioning – the world needs a plumber, to fix its internal plumbing that carries courage, compassion and acceptance. And mark you, it doesn’t matter whatsoever, of what color your collar is, what matters above everything else, is that – are you responsible, and then, are you committed and courageous enough to act on that responsibility!