List of Satish Kumar Quotes

So, At The Age Of Nine, I Became A Monk, And From Then On I Was There Practicing That Kind Of Nonviolence.

Monks Will Have Three Begging Bowls For Their Food: One For Water, One For Liquid Food, One For Dry Food.

That Was My Real Education In The World - I Learned Politics, The Social And Cultural Life Of India, Hindu Tradition And Religion, And Buddhism.

If You Can Kill Animals, The Same Attitude Can Kill Human Beings. The Mentality Is The Same Which Exploits Nature And Which Creates Wars.

I And A Friend Of Mine Called Mannon Talked Together, And We Both Decided To Walk This Journey.

People Are Are Moving Away From The Fossil Fuel-based Economy, To A More Renewable Economy. That Is What Is Called The 'transition Town' Movement. There Are Three Hundred Towns In Britain That Are Making This Transition. Taking Energy From Solar Power, From Wind Power, From Water Power.

Large Numbers Of Young People Are Waking Up. And They Are Saying, "we Are Not Here Just To Work For Multinational Corporations And Make Money For Them. We Are Here To Live. We Have To Find The Meaning Of Life."

Our Modern World Of Old Story Is Completely Failing Humanity. This Is The Reason That Increasing Numbers Of People Have Become And Are Becoming Disillusioned From Politics. People Don't Like Voting. Whoever You Vote, Government Gets In. Whatever They Promise, They Never Fulfill.

Education Provides You A Profession. But Not Vocation. You Do It Only Because You Need To Work To Earn Money To Buy Your Food, Buy Your Clothes, Pay The Bills. Our Life Has A Greater Meaning, And A Greater Purpose.

We Need To Develop A Sense Of Sufficiency To Be Happy.

Quality And Perfection Are Achieved With Time. You Do Not Create A Perfect Painting Or A Perfect Poem By Hurrying. Time Is Always Coming.

Because The Western Civilization Is Dominated By Dualistic Thinking, Holistic Scientists And Philosophers Don't Get The Recognition They Deserve.

I Want New Story Education To Be Skilling Human Beings And Young People To Provide Basic Human Needs. Technology And All Other Things Are Icing On The Cake.

We Change By Changing Our Consciousness And By Saying, Money Should Not Be A Commodity. Money Should Be A Means To An End.

We Then Came To The Soviet Union. One Day We Were Walking And Carrying Our Banner And Distributing A Few Leaflets In Russian To People, And We Met Two Women On The Road.

It Became Extremely Important That We Go And See The Four Heads Of The Governments, And The Message Was Delivered, With The Tea Packets, To All These Heads.

Of Course, We All Need To Have Basic Necessities Met, Such As Good Health Care, Good Food, Good Education And Good Housing. But What Is Good? Having Too Much Is Bad, As Having Too Little Is Also Bad.

In Spite Of Nuclear Weapons, Large Numbers Of American Citizens Feel Totally Insecure. And In Spite Of So Much Wealth, Industry And Technology, Many Americans Are Living Under Deprivation And Anxiety. So Happiness Is Not In Accumulation Of Material Goods, It's In Sharing And Caring.

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.

When You Come To The Spiritual Needs, The Emotional Needs, The Needs Of Our Inner Life, Then Politics And Business And Technology Are Completely Impotent. They Are Completely Unable To Meet And Address The Needs Of Human Beings.

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.

I Was Pursuing The Inner Path At The Expense Of The Rest Of My Being And The Rest Of The World.

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.

The Children Are Being Conditioned To Think That The Purpose Of Life Is To Get A Good Job. You Get Paid But You Don't Get Satisfaction From Your Work.