I wish I could go back and relive my childhood. For a few decades, like the idiot in the Chinese proverb, I had been focusing on the wise man's finger and missed all the heavenly glories of the moon that he was pointing to.
...In the Hindu view, the absolute Truth is never fully comprehensible. The story of the six blind men and the elephant illustrates this view.
...In the Hindu view, the absolute Truth is never fully comprehensible. The story of the six blind men and the elephant illustrates this view.
...A court in The Hague has ordered the Dutch government to cut its emissions by at least 25% within five years, in a landmark ruling expected to cause ripples around the world....
The Caterpillar culture is the culture of the overweening, chest-thumping human ego.
..."The G.M.O. experiment, carried out in real time and with our entire food and ecological system as its laboratory, is perhaps the greatest case of human hubris ever. It creates yet another systemic, “too big too fail” enterprise — but one for which no bailouts...
Soon after the Financial crisis of 2008 unfolded, I was attending a conference in Bangalore, India, where the Keynote speaker was an economic adviser to the Prime Minister of India.
...Yet another absurdity that forms the basis of modern industrial culture is our assumption that we humans can dominate and bend Nature to our will.
...The Caterpillar culture is built on the use of "winner takes all" style competitions as the engine for progress.
...Since around 1960, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project has been scanning the electromagnetic spectrum using radio telescopes, looking for signatures of intelligent alien Life from elsewhere in the cosmos
...In an inspiring lecture at TEDx Amazonia in Nov. 2010, Prof. Antonio Donato Nobre was explaining the "Biotic Moisture Pump" that keeps the Amazon rainforest so lush.
...As someone living in an urban area and as a conscious consumer, I consider the most important thing that I can do to promote a Butterfly culture is to consume an Organic, plant-based Vegan diet and I have been quite vocal about my reasons for...
The second most effective step is to go local, to strengthen local communities, to build up the Transition Towns and to grow our organic produce locally.
...Tell them and they will forget. Show them and they may remember. Involve them and they will understand
...The Lighting Project was started to address just the lighting energy needs of the rural poor in a distributed manner so that they don't have to depend upon kerosene and other fuels for that purpose.
...Worldwide, nearly 3 billion people use some form of biomass for cooking, burning up an estimated 1.5 billion tons of firewood annually
...In a small village called Karech in Rajasthan, India, Rayakbai walks 3 kilometers uphill every day to collect firewood for her family.
...Nobody can go back and start a new beginning. But anybody can start today and make a new ending
...Cultural transformations are primarily led by youth, since adults and senior citizens are usually too habituated to change easily.
...In the Vedic view, our sense of oneness with the whole can occur through four main pathways: through our intellect via reasoning (Gnana Yoga), through our emotions, primarily in the form of love and devotion (Bhakti Yoga), through our actions (Karma Yoga) and through meditation...