William Morris championed the movement for Arts and Crafts. He believed that when we build a house with our hands, make furniture in our workshops, make pots and paintings in our studios, plant fruits and flowers in our gardens, we transform ourselves into alchemists, turning ordinary into extraordinary.

— Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar Quotes

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

— Satish Kumar

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

— Satish Kumar

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

— Satish Kumar

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

— Satish Kumar

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.

— Satish Kumar

If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.

— Satish Kumar

Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.

— Satish Kumar

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

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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

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

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Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don’t like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

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Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.

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I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

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Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

— Satish Kumar

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don’t get the recognition they deserve.

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If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

— Satish Kumar

I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge – not only about measurement – not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

— Satish Kumar

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.”

— Satish Kumar

Whatever lessens suffering in yourself and others, that is right. Whatever increases suffering, that is wrong.

— Satish Kumar

William Morris championed the movement for Arts and Crafts. He believed that when we build a house with our hands, make furniture in our workshops, make pots and paintings in our studios, plant fruits and flowers in our gardens, we transform ourselves into alchemists, turning ordinary into extraordinary.

— Satish Kumar
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