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The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated
Satish Kumar
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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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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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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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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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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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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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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