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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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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.
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I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
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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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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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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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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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Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.
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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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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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In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring.
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All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.
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We need to learn to live in the here and now this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
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Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
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Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.
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