“Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.”

The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human.

All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being.

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish.

They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.

It is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.

Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.

We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.

Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress.

First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.

For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood.

Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.

The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfilment.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.

On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.

The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

Good food is a celebration of life.

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.