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

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.
Satish Kumar

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
Satish Kumar

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
Satish Kumar

If 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 Kumar

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
Satish Kumar

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
Satish Kumar

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.
Satish Kumar