To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to the selfish concerns of our particular egos. We have choices as human beings. We can be saints or we can be terrorists. We can be peaceful or we can be miserable. When we see everything in the world as God's sacred property, then we're seeing the spiritual potential, the spiritual substance, everywhere.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.