I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.