Satish Kumar Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

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.

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.