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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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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We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
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Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
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We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.
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Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world
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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.