Said a student of the Hindu spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba, "What astounded me when I was around Maharaji wasn't that he loved everybody. After all, he was a saint, and saints are supposed to love everybody. What astounded me was that when I was around him, I loved everybody. It's the kind of love that's contagious, passed from heart to heart, from soul to soul to soul."
— Marc Ian Barasch, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life