The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow. - Anthony de Mello

That’s why you’ll never catch me saluting a flag. I abhor all national flags because they are idols. What are we saluting? I salute humanity, not a flag with an army around it.

Much advance publicity was made for the address the Master would deliver on The Destruction of the World and a large crowd gathered at the monastery grounds to hear him. The address was over in less than a minute. All he said was: "These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness."

I lack the Lord’s own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.