I learn about love by loving, and the more I love the more I learn. Wherever I aspire to dreams binding me to others, wherever I open myself to prayer . . The search for you is full of dangers and wrong turns, but if I press on, the wrong turn finally becomes the right turn. The place to start is where I am. No matter how desperate my lot, how deep the valley of the shadow of death, I do not lose heart, because the opportunity for creative response is always there.
People talk of the coming messiah.
They think that you are out there, not in here. You have taught me that everyone is a messiah, and good deeds for one hour in this world are better than all the time in the world to come. Thus, it is inevitable, if my life is to be fulfilled, that I love my neighbor as myself, with my heart, not just my head. I become united with Brahman, cut free from the fruit of the act. Were this not so I would be prisoner, enslaved by action, dragged on by desire.