All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.
Satish KumarIf we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
Satish KumarIf we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.
Satish KumarNature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.
Satish Kumar