If our love, belief and affection are confined to our nearest kith and kin, that will be the lowest kind of selfish love. On the other hand, if you stretch a little beyond the narrow region of your family and extend your faith and belief to your countrymen, then it becomes intermediate. If you treat the entire world as one and regard all the people living in it as one, and extend your faith and sympathy to all of them, then it is the highest kind of selfless love. Gradually we should move from the limited circle of our family to the wider circle of our country and then expand to the Universe. When we talk of humanity, it should not be confined to a small group of people. There is only one caste, and that is the caste of humanity, and when we talk of humanity, we must extend our selfless love to all species in the Universe too.

- Summer Roses on Blue Mountains, 1976, Ch 15.