Shivananda Howard

“rebel” is a person who sees the flaws and mistakes in the circumstances fate initially drops them into, and makes every effort to distance themselves from those shortcomings. This sort of non-conformity is very healthy for the individual and the society, because it allows the social unit to evolve and grow past its initial imperfections. A “rebel without a cause” is a person who does not want to conform with social norms, but doesn’t have a clear reason why and thus doesn’t have a clear idea of a better alternative. They are like winds that try to blow without a destination. Movement cannot proceed without a destination, so such rebellion and non-conformity only produces anxiety and anger in the individual and does not have a significant purifying effect on the social unit.”
― Vic DiCara, Nakshatra - The Authentic Heart of Vedic Astrology

“There is a story about one emperor, King Akbar. He was doing the mass, praying, on the open ground. And there was a fakir who passed by. The king was asking for, "Give me more wealth, more prosperity," and this and that. And as he finished, he was about to finish it, this fakir who was moving around, this saint who was moving, who passed that way, he just stood and watched him for a couple of minutes and he moved away. And Akbar got up and said, "Oh, wait, wait, what is it that you want? Because I will give you whatever you want. You ask me." You know, this used to be the tradition in those days. Kings allowed people to ask them whatever desire they had. So this fakir, this saint said, "I don't take anything from a beggar." He said, "You yourself were begging, five minutes ago. I saw. You were asking, 'Allah, You give me this, give me that.' You are still a beggar being an emperor. I don't need to take anything from you. I'll take it from whomever you are asking.”
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, The Path of Love, Narada's Bhakti Sutras