One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.