Why should you need courage to observe what is actually going on? You don’t have to have courage when you have toothache – you go to the dentist. Similarly, when you are facing the catastrophe out there, which each one of us has created, will you become aware that you are responsible for it? None of us want to feel that responsibility, global responsibility. Your consciousness is not yours, it is the global human consciousness. So if you are concerned with the tragedy of this world, the misery, confusion and sorrow of human beings, then you are involved in resolving it, not playing with words and theories. You are concerned, you care, you are responsible for all that you do.
From an interview by Lex Hixon, New York City, 31 March 1982