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.

Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

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

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

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.

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

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