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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

Satish Kumar

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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
Activist
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Environmentalist
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Shri Dungargarh
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We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
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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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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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This was Mahatma Gandhi’s idea, moving from ownership to relationship—seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We are not the owners of the land. We are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. The fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.
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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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In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.
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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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The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.
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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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Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
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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 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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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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