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Satish Kumar Quotes: 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 going once a day to beg for food.
         

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 going once a day to beg for food.


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We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.



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The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude



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 love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused



Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever



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Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world



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

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



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 is my poem and my prayer.

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 is my poem and my prayer.



What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat



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Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.





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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.



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The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.



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Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.



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I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.



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