Helena Norberg-hodge Quotes

#1. A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.

Sam Harris

#2. I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.
- Celine

Richard Linklater

#3. To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

Jane Wagner

#4. We exist within the question of God.

William Barrett

#5. Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#6. At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#7. Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#8. Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination.

Oscar Wilde

#9. What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#10. There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#11. I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#12. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

Radhanath Swami

#14. I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#15. Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#16. As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#17. I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

George Porter

#18. One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#19. Life is never easy to anyone.
Everyone has a challenge to overcome.
Be kind, tolerant, and compassionate.

Lailah Gifty Akita