All Satish Kumar Quotes
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
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If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
Satish Kumar
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I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
Satish Kumar
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Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
Satish Kumar
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It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
Satish Kumar
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Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
Satish Kumar
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So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
Satish Kumar
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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.
Satish Kumar
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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.
Satish Kumar
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I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
Satish Kumar
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I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
Satish Kumar
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With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
Satish Kumar
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