The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.

We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.