In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.

It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.

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

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

Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.