Quotes from Satish Kumar

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

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.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

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

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.

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.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this 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 is my poem and my prayer.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

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

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, and we met two women on the road.

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

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

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.

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.

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

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

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