Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains