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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Above all nations is humanity.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.