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Satish Kumar

"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."

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"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."

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"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."
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"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."
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"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."
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"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."
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"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."
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"If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars."
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"Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery."
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"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."
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"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."
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"This gives us more time to attend the inner need."
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