Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

...causing her eyes to bulge and her tongue to flick from behind her luscious lips, scaring away insects." — Amok 2015

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.