Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 August 1936
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The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I 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.
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There's not much fresh capacity addition happening and demand has always grown 1.3 times the real gross domestic product. So prices should remain firm or go up.
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I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.
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My mother, for example, made a list of 50 items which she could eat in her life, and she would not eat anything outside that list.
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With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
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This gives us more time to attend the inner need.
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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.
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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.
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Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.
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They have only handwritten manuscripts, because you can write very small and then you can carry the most basic manuscripts with you.
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These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.
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If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.
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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.