God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.
I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.
There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.
The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.
When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.
To open to civilization the only part of our globe where it has yet to penetrate, to pierce the darkness which envelops whole populations, it is I dare to say, a crusade…
Referring to European colonization of Africa.
I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.