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In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.

Satish Kumar

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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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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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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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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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
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