"For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man."

“Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.”

“I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'”

“I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.”

“The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.”

Source : "The Parental Deity and the One to Be Realized" by Adi Da, February 7, 1983.

“Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.”

“The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.”

Source : "CNN Live at Daybreak", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.

“I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.”

“You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.”