Satish Kumar Quotes

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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…
• I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
• 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,…
• 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…
• Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
• So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
• If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
• 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…
• There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent…
• Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the…
• With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
• I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
• This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

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