Humanity

You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
All men and women should remember that their worldly life can be freed from endless physical and mental ills if they add deep meditation to their daily routine of living.
If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.
If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all.
Christ wasn’t a Christian and Buddha wasn’t a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn’t Muslim.
“The Hindu scriptures speak of the body as a machine fraught with six delusive deficiencies: ‘It exists; it is born; it grows; it changes; it decays; and it is completely annihilated.’ Yet most human beings expect permanent happiness from this impermanent body.”
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
As long as you are run by the egoic mind, you are part of the collective insanity... You don’t need to condemn. Just observe.
Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.
In every moment, you have a choice. To either honor the part of you that craves something more. Or to continue squeezing into a role that doesn’t fill your cup.
When you choose to live from a place of love, you are free to be yourself, to connect with your desires, and to take action from a place of empowerment. When you choose to live from a place of fear, you are always trying to fit in, denying who you really are in order to satisfy the expectations of others. The latter not only deprives you of [continue reading...]
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.
No matter what trials come, remember that the greatest test of one's spiritual aspiration lies in his control of himself in his own home environment  -- especially if it is a discordant one. If a person's inner peace can exhibit stability and strength at home, and if he conquers others' quarrelsome dispositions by his constant, beautiful [continue reading...]
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.