Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve. Satish Kumar More Quotes by Satish Kumar More Quotes From Satish Kumar I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart. Satish Kumar generosity compassion heart In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values. Satish Kumar environmental spiritual facts People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food. Satish Kumar healthy people needs Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature. Satish Kumar cutting ocean rain The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work. Satish Kumar jobs children thinking When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings. Satish Kumar emotional technology spiritual In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY. Satish Kumar fate giving-up motivational One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings. Satish Kumar finding-yourself journey book 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. Satish Kumar skills compassion hands In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring. Satish Kumar insecure technology caring 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. Satish Kumar enlightenment speak world Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad. Satish Kumar care littles needs 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. Satish Kumar government important tea I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake. Satish Kumar cake technology people Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose. Satish Kumar clothes purpose needs We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy. Satish Kumar sufficiency needs Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming. Satish Kumar painting quality perfect We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story. Satish Kumar continuum soil stories All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism. Satish Kumar today philosophy world Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life." Satish Kumar meaning-of-life numbers people
