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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.

Satish Kumar

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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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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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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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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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