"The ego is terrified of groundlessness, so it grabs a chair. It clings to labels because labels give it continuity. When someone says, ‘I am a Leftist’ or ‘I am a Rightist,’ this is not identity but insecurity. The chair is a crutch. The row is a refuge. The ego loves ideology because ideology is a respectable form of bondage. The real question is not Left versus Right. You were not born to sit on the Left or the Right. You were born to stand free."

"Violence never arrives announcing itself as violence. It arrives wrapped in reasons and slogans, in duty, in faith, in law, in nation, and demands that you honour it as necessary. It extracts your moral consent first, and only then does it spill blood."

"स्वतंत्रता कोई उपहार नहीं, बल्कि एक उपलब्धि है जिसे प्रत्येक व्यक्ति को स्वयं अर्जित करना पड़ता है। राजनीतिक स्वतंत्रता हमें विरासत में मिल सकती है, किंतु मानसिक और आध्यात्मिक स्वतंत्रता के लिए सतत प्रयास आवश्यक है।"

"रक्षाबंधन एक स्मरण हो सकता है कि हम सब मिलकर उस विवेक, उस करुणा की रक्षा करें जो जीवन को जीवन बनाती है। यह पर्व केवल उपहारों का आदान-प्रदान न रह जाए, बल्कि यह एक ऐसा संकल्प बन जाए जिसमें हम एक-दूसरे के आत्मबल और ऊंची चेतना के रक्षक बनें।"

"गुरु पूर्णिमा किसी व्यक्ति या परंपरा का उत्सव नहीं है। यह उस का सम्मान है जिसने हमें देखने की दृष्टि दी, और हमें छोड़ दिया जब हम देखना सीख गए। यह नमन है उस शब्द को जिसने हमें सत्य से प्रेम करना सिखाया। जो पास आया, ताकि हम बिना झुके अकेले चलना सीख सकें।"

Acharya Prashant says: “If you wouldn’t call this foeticide, then what would you call it? When an unborn child is killed in the womb, you consider it wrong—you call it a sin, a crime. But what do you call the way we are killing ourselves from within? Not allowing the self to manifest is suicide.”

You had been living very wrongly — now life itself is telling you. Out of ten, only one understands that this pandemic is conveying something, that there is something we must learn. Life is trying to tell you that you had been living in a deeply mistaken way.