"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

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

The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

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.