Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.