12 Quotes by Satish Kumar
- So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
- 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.
- Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
- 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.
- This gives us more time to attend the inner need.
- 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.
- With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
- If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
- 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.
- I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
- 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.
- 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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