All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

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.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

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.

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.