Quotes Tagged "pearls-of-wisdom"

If you are human, you are spiritual - if you are human, you are religious - if you are human, you are alive.

Drawing a cross on your forehead won't get you into heaven, for real heaven can only manifest around us on earth, if we, the individual humans, start acting as civilized creatures of conscience and character.

The world needs a practical gospel, that's not preached just on Sundays, but only practiced through actions everyday - actions that are beyond praise - actions that are beyond expectations - actions that are beyond all opposites, as well as socially comprehensible labels and terms.

Being holistic doesn't mean mumbling mystical mumbo-jumbo all the time, it means seeing the reality as it is, without giving in to either supernatural nonsense or intellectual arrogance.

Beyond culture, beyond tradition, beyond all dogmas and doctrines, there lies a beautiful valley full with real liberty and real harmony - in that valley, diversity is no cause for discrimination or hatred, rather it provides colors to the collective life of humanity as one family - in that valley, the best creed is to have no creed - the best path is to have no path - the best ideology is to have no ideology.

A better world begins with a better human.

If you want to have true religion in your heart, then burn the scriptures and go out in the world to end misery.

Evolution is the life-force of metaphysics and spirituality.

God art thou and thy will be done.

A life lived for others is a true religious life.

The world needs psychological singularity, that is oneness among humans, not some pompous biotechnological singularity.

Service of humanity is practical divinity.

If you have realized your responsibility towards your society, then you are more enlightened that all the priests, imams and pundits combined.

Throw away all mystical nonsense and be divine through your acts of kindness - be divine through your gestures of acceptance - be divine through your footsteps of awareness.

Being in peace doesn't mean absence of misery, it means absence of conflict in the mind.

Someone asked me the other day - 'could you tell me, what is right human living' - I put my hand on his shoulder and asked him to sit beside me, with a gentle smile on my face, then uttered softly, 'I don't know your religious belief or disbelief, I don't know your professional background, I don't know your economic or social status, all I need to know is that you are a human being, a reflection of my own self, so I treat you with kindness and acceptance, same as I treat myself'. The world is flooded with judgments and opinions - for once my friend, take a step beyond that flood, and you shall see a beautiful world, where being human is a beautiful thing - in that world being human is all that matters.

Talking reason with a fundamentalist is like talking balanced diet with a hungry tiger - you can't win.

There is nothing wrong in following a teacher in the path of self-awareness, but the moment one begins to see that teacher as the authority of one's life, immediately one goes astray from the path of self-realization and indeed from the path of truth, and eventually ends up in the same kind of trap of doctrines and laws that one wanted to be free from in the first place. That's how all religions have been born. Loyalty to a teacher or messiah, inadvertently leads to psychological slavery, and in often cases, the enslaved is not even aware of the enslavement. It's a kind of illusion one lives in, where the teacher's word or the prophet's doctrines become gospel in the life of an individual. Hence, all shortcomings of that teacher or prophet creep into the life of his followers as well.

Some people make cars, some rockets - I make Gods.

There is no greater sacred power than the indomitable spirit of humanity.