We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.