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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.

Satish Kumar

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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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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I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
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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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People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
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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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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
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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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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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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 kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
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The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.
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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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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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We need to learn to live in the here and now this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
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