Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.

Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.