Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

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

If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.

The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.

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

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

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