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.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

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

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

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

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

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.