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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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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.
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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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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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We need to learn to live in the here and now this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
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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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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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Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
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In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.
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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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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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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
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