What is it that people need today? These are three things: A heart pure and white like the moon, speech soft and sweet like butter, a face that is loving and kind. Today, on the contrary, people are hardhearted... There is harshness in speech, and no softness in their hearts. Fill your hearts with compassion. Let your speech be sweet and truthful. You will then be truly human.

- Divine Discourse, May 15, 1997.

Only he is a true human being who recognises the indwelling divinity within the shrine of his body. - Baba