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.

The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.

Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

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

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.