Top 69 Satish Kumar Quotes
#1. Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
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#2. Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
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#3. Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
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#4. We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
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#5. One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
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#6. I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
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#7. I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.
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#8. If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
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#9. We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.
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#10. Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
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#11. I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.
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#12. That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
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#13. Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.
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#14. Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.
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#15. The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
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#16. We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
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#17. So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
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#18. We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
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#19. Remaining aware of awareness, witnessing it thru every experience within without one, is the way and the goal both ...
Be Happy and keep smiling ...
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#20. If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
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#21. I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
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#23. All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.
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#24. Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.
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#25. Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
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#26. In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.
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#27. Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.
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#28. Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
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#29. Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.
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#30. If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.
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#31. That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
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#32. We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.
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#33. Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."
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#34. Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
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#35. If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
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#36. The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated
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#37. Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
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#38. If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
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#39. We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.
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#40. Now is the moment to live fully, and live in happiness. If there is no happiness today, how can you expect to be happy tomorrow?
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#41. Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.
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#42. What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
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#43. Our relationship with Nature ... best way of forging this relationship ... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
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#44. People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
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#45. In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.
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#46. I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
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#47. People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.
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#48. If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.
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#49. Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world
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#50. In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.
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#51. This gives us more time to attend the inner need.
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#52. Ego means "I am this body mind" ...
Clarity realise "I am That"
Whereas in real Just awareness is ...
Be Happy and keep smiling ...
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#53. It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
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#54. The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.
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#55. It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.
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#56. You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
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#57. The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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#58. "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.
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#59. We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
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#60. If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
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#61. Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.
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#62. When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.
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#63. With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
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#64. Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.
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#65. We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.
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#66. We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
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#67. Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
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#68. At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.
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#69. Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever
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