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Satish Kumar Quotes

Indian - Activist | 1936 -

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.

Walking Month Cemetery Been Grave

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.

Tea Go Important See Message Four

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.

Women Day People Road Walking Two

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

Nature Attitude You Animals Human

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

Friend Journey Walk Together Mine

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

You Say Risk Land Almost He

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.

World Rest Speak Hell Enlightenment

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.

Journey Religion Book Said Social

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

Path World Rest Being Inner Expense

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.

Morning Food Day Childhood Evening

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Age Kind Monk Practicing Nonviolence

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Water Food Three Will Begging Dry

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