The less your needs, the stronger your integrity.

The Golden SonnetWhere is el dorado?It is not a city but a person.Where is the kingdom of heaven?It is not a place but compassion.Where can we find joy?Not the market but in acts of goodness.Where can we find health?Not in gadgets but in simpleness.Where can we find strength?Not in the bank but in character.How can we make progress?Not with luxury but by lifting the other.Lesser the needs, better the life.Gentler the soul, lighter the strife.

Lesser the needs, better the life.

If you want growth in life and in society, you must scale back the brakes on your desires.

Too much comfort is not healthy, for it makes us lazy, and when we are lazy we stop growing.

Serenity shrinks as luxury grows.

Except for our pompous means of comfort, human condition is not much different from animal condition - we are tormented each day with animal like anxieties, insecurities and fears, and each torment makes us believe that perhaps having more comfort will change our condition, but it never does, rather, it only shoves us deeper into the abyss of psychological darkness.

The end of economic disparity will not take place magically out of some fancy diplomatic and political whim. It'll require radical changes to the very mindset of the human population, which will further lead to changes in their lifestyle, that in turn will lead to a society with integrity, stability and character. It is this simple, discard luxury and practice simplicity.

It’s a strange world we live in, some people's trash contains more food than some people's stomach. Things won't change until we renounce all luxury.