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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elderly happy means people relieved save savings
These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.
monks mother restless
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.
moving world example
At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.
self challenges goes-on
In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.
thinking names people
The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.
gratitude future air
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
corporations making-money slave
We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.
kind
Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
gratitude environment depends
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
attitude sacred moments
We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.
acting stopping social-transformation
The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.
growth habitat waste
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
compassion hands skills
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
earth way tourists
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth