Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

If there is no God consciousness in human life, then one will seek only mortality, not immortality.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

There is only one caste, the caste of humanity.

Childhood is the foundation stone upon which stands the whole life structure. The seed sown in childhood blossoms into the tree of life. The education which is imparted in childhood is more important than the education which is received in colleges and universities. In the process of human growth, proper guidance along with environmental learning is important.

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.

The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard.

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You... the people must give it this soul.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.