Humanity

In order to go safely through this jungle of life you must equip yourself with the proper weapons.… The wise man who is armed against all forms of warfare—against disease, against destiny and karma, against all evil thoughts and habits—becomes the victor in this adventure.
All physical pleasures arise on the surface of the body and are experienced by the mind through the nervous system. You love the outer pleasures of the senses because you happened to be captured by them first, and then you remained their prisoner. Even as some people get used to jail, so we mortals like the outward pleasures, which shut off the joys from within
Understand and feel the superior joys of the inner life, and you will prefer them to the fleeting pleasures of the outer world.
To remain in ignorance of your divine nature and to be overpowered by bad habits is to make an enemy of your own self. The best way to be successful in this adventure of life is to be your own friend.
As we begin to travel more lightly within the body, aging becomes a different experience.
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
The thought system that dominates our world is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorientating. For years we may have worked for money, power and prestige. Now all of a sudden we've learned that those are just the values of a dying world.
Your whole mind is a fog. This is the condition of the human mind.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.
War, violence, murder, massacre of millions of people—this is not possible if a man knows something of meditation.
One human life is deeper than the ocean.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Never again will we stand on the threshold of a new age.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.