Satish Kumar Quotes - Page 2

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• Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

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  Children, Destiny, Giving

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• 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 on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

  Satish Kumar

  God, Spiritual, Art

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• I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

  Satish Kumar

  Heart, Compassion, Generosity

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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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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  Earth, Pesticides, Chemicals

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

  Satish Kumar

  Corporations, Making Money, Slave

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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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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  Moving, Land, Ideas

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• We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Art, Imagination

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

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  Mean, Corporations, Making Money

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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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

  Self, Challenges, Goes On

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.

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  War, Personal Transformation, Political

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

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  Environmental, Goes On, Earth

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• The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

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  Simple, Climate, Busy

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• The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

  Satish Kumar

  Thinking, Names, People

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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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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  Vision, Environmental, World

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

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  Fear, Thinking, Animal

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• Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

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  Believe, Civilization, Medicine

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.

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  Animal, Long, Needs

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.

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  Running, Achievement, Enough Time

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

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  Philosophy, Mind, West

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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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.

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  Roots, Greed, Political

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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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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  Spiritual, Environmental, Facts

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.

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  Motivational, Giving Up, Fate

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• 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 go to hell, so to speak.

  Satish Kumar

  Enlightenment, World, Speak

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