Humanity
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Morality has become an important thing in the society because people have forsaken their humanity. If your humanity was alive and active you would not need any morality. People have put their humanity to sleep and trying to behave like human beings with morality and it’s not working because everybody will come up with his own morality.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
If you stir up the humanity within you, you will do the most sensible thing that’s needed for that moment and that’s all that matters that your actions are in context with the realities in which you exist. And the context is always changing; if you don’t change according to that, people who are moralistic are always looking archaic for the new generation of people, isn’t it? They wonder why this guy is still alive. Yes? If you’re very moralistic, even your children will wonder why are you still alive; because you look like you are from somewhere else.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Many humans who are historically known as great beings; this is all that happened to them. They were living with a limited identification. All of a sudden, an event occurred that broke their identities and they were able to relate to a larger process happening around them. They did things that they themselves could not imagine possible.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
This is not about being superhuman — this is about realizing that being human is super.