All Quotes

"All roads lead to people - those that don't, lead back to the jungle."

"Passport is just a glorified bus pass."

"A world without borders is a world without fear - and it's impossible to control people when they no longer fear each other."

"Home is a people, not a place. Move to a different city, and anyone from your hometown will feel like family. Move to a different country, and the very sight of someone from your native country will make you emotional. Move to space, and the very sight of earth will wreak tears of joy. We keep bickering over trivial things like race, religion, gender, sexuality, status and so on, because even in this day and age we still take human life for granted. Ask an astronaut, and they'll tell you, whether they can find any trace of those prehistoric barriers from up there in space."

"From the very beginning, we have been outsourcing morality from external imaginary agencies - first it was god, then it was government. When will the human be sentient and civilized enough to draw morality from the non-imaginary depths of their own heart!"

"We don't need to believe in a grand design to be good people, but we do need to be good people to create a grand design."

"You are the eyeway to illumination, You are the spineway to invigoration. You are the headway to inspiration, You are the heartway to assimilation."

"You gotta surpass your intellect and belief, if you want to stand as healer and peacemaker."

"Leave your creed, crown and constitution, when you enter my door."

"They ask me, why do you speak for so many cultures, when you are not born in those cultures? So I asked the sun, why do you share your light with earth, when you are not born of earth? The sun told me, o ye of little mind, don't you know, light is not mine to give! Light is the intrinsic right of life, I am merely accessory to the motive."

"You can train a mind to think, but you can't train a heart to love. Either you love or you don't, there's no training. Either you love or you don't, there's no thinking. Nobody thinks twice before hating, then why should you think twice before loving! Until love becomes instinctive as hate, nothing will change."

"Divide and divine can never go together."

"Diversity is an act of nature, Inclusion is an act of mind. Diversity is the presence of light, Inclusion is the celebration of light."

"There is light beyond the wall, there is sky beyond the ceiling. Walls broken is world awakened, Ceiling breaking is sky awakening."

"Grow so big with your ideas that you become a threat to every nationalist state in the world. Grow so big with inclusivity that you become a curse to every fundamentalist institution in the world."

"Religion without oneness is lame, Science without accountability is shame. Philosophy without gentleness is vain, Vision without virtue is inane."

"Stronger the mind, gentler the mind. Braver the mind, humbler the mind."

"You are the sum of all science, You are the life of all poetry. You are the end to animosity, You are the answer to conspiracy."

"The world is swarming with snakes, In your soul brews the antidote. Churn your doubts, burn your dread, One gentle gaze sanitizes the cosmos."

"All deserts are born of human coldness."

"A civilized world is not where everybody flocks to another nation to fulfill their dream, but where everybody can pursue their dream without feeling the need to become an immigrant."

"To treat disease you need medical license, To treat injustice being human is enough. To fly a plane you need pilot's license, To lift up society being human is enough."

"Swim through tsunami like the sea is your empire."

"If you can't find God in people, your God is dead. If you can't find holiness in people, your holiness is fake."

"Secularism is not a rejection of religion, secularism is inoculation against fundamentalism."

"Most potent medicine we have is each other."

"A smile works faster than a pill, both metaphorically and physiologically. Pills take hours to reach your bloodstream, while a smile triggers instant release of neurochemicals, which alleviates pain and facilitates immunity."

"The only permanence we have is each other."

"Beyond fear and fanaticism, Beyond ignorance and intolerance, There’s a valley of love and laughter, Come someday, I shall meet you there."

"Only the heart can shatter to a million pieces and still keep beating,"

"One sacrifice awakens millions."

"More than being the spark of reason, Be the reason for someone's spark. Better than bearing the light of faith, Instill faith in someone's light."

"By saying your religion is the only right religion, you only prove, your religion is the wrong religion. Every religion is right religion, or none are."

"Beyond all crucifix and calculus, Love is the only cosmic education."

"I am not a capitalist, I am not a communist, I am not a socialist, I am not a traditionalist. A puerile, clinically sectarian species like yours cannot fathom what I am. Does that mean, I am not the same species as you! Sure, I am - but from a different dimension - a different dimension in time - a different dimension in mind - where intellect is only a tool, not torture - where faith is only a choice, not compulsion - where money is only a means, not master - where oneness is fundamental, not fiction."

"Peace is a crime against state, that's why patriotism is a glorified quality. More patriotic the citizens of a nation, less likely they'll question warmongery."

"Nationality is a right, nationalism is not. Religion is a right, fundamentalism is not."

"Nationalism manufactures more widows and orphans than disease and disaster."

"Ceasefire only postpones war, demilitarization plants peace."

"It's a sad state of affairs when you get used to the sight of blood, glorifying aggression as bravehearted. It's a sad state of affairs when you feel good dressing up for gala, while children are being bombed to death."

"Every animal knows self-love, only the human knows selfless love."

"One hug does more to wipe tears than a hundred hours of therapy."

"Diversity is the presence of 'us', Inclusion is celebration of 'us'. Tradition is the worship of past, Evolution is the celebration of 'us'."

"Superstition is not divinity, any more than phrenology is brain science. Conspiracy is not enlightenment, any more than astrology is astrophysics."

"My divinity is not rooted in god or scripture, my divinity is rooted in human welfare. My science is not rooted in cold logic venture, my science is rooted in human welfare."

"In the beginning we were dust, in the end we'll be dust, it's the journey in between, that makes it all worth the fuss."

"Existence here is an art of love, at our planet on the cosmic prairie. New Earth is a celebration of life, not a validation of ruinous rigidity."

"That's what conscience does to you - it takes away the slightest inclination of compromise, and turns you into an incorruptible beacon of pure conviction."

"Either you succumb to the world, or expand so vast that the world succumbs to you."

"Be the humanest human you could be. That's all we can do - be the humanest human we could be."