What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

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 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.

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

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

We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.

People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.