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- Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,…
- Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
- The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving…
- If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world…
- Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to…
- One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey,…
- How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree…
- 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…
- So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
- 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…
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