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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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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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 are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.
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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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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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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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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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In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.
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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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Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
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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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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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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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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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