Those who waste bread will be condemned to as many years in purgatory as the number of crumbs wasted and will have to pick those crumbs up, one by one, with their eyelids.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

Yoga is a means and an end.

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.