This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.