People today are totally immersed in self-interest, multiplying desires without limit. They are not content with having what they need for essential purposes. They wish to accumulate enormously for the future. They are filled with worries and discontent. Thereby they forfeit their happiness here and in the hereafter. Birds and beasts are content with what they can get. Man alone is afflicted with insatiable desires... He forgets his natural human qualities and behaves worse than animals. When these tendencies are given up, the inherent divinity in man will manifest itself.

- Divine Discourse, September 26, 1987.

The truly human qualities are calmness, forbearance and compassion. - Baba