If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.