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.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

"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.

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

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