My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you.