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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.

Satish Kumar

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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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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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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We need to learn to live in the here and now this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
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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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In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.
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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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We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
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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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Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.
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