Latest Satish Kumar Quotes from Interviews

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• If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.

  Satish Kumar

  Political, Sacred, Path

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

• The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

  Satish Kumar

  Acting, Small Steps, Stopping

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

• 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

  Roots, Greed, Political

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  War, Personal Transformation, Political

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

• We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

  Satish Kumar

  Needs, Moments, Best Moments

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

• Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

  Satish Kumar

  Giving, Looks, Attention

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Running, Achievement, Enough Time

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

• Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

  Satish Kumar

  Perfect, Quality, Painting

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

• We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

  Satish Kumar

  Needs, Sufficiency

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Believe, Civilization, Medicine

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Needs, Care, Littles

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Insecure, Caring, Technology

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

• If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

  Satish Kumar

  Country, America, World

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

• "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

  Satish Kumar

  Running, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

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

• Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

  Satish Kumar

  Kind

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

• 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.

• If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

  Satish Kumar

  Army, Nuclear, Weapons

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

• All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

  Satish Kumar

  Philosophy, World, Today

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

• In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Environmental, Facts

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

• Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

  Satish Kumar

  Thinking, Civilization, Recognition

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

• If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

  Satish Kumar

  Vision, Environmental, World

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Philosophy, Mind, West

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Compassion, Hands, Skills

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

• 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.

  Satish Kumar

  Children, Destiny, Giving

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