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

When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."

We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

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.