Radical Love by Satish Kumar Book Spotlight!

 

To see peace in our lifetimes, we have to study love. This is the radical message of this inspirational book of pithy grandfatherly advice, which helps us find ways to love ourselves, others, and all beings--even those we may find unlovable.

Author and activist Satish Kumar is well known for his epic 1960s walk for world peace from India to Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, DC. Wherever he traveled, he found that human beings were capable of great love, which could overcome hatred and division. Settling down in the UK, he met his wife, June Mitchell, and raised two children while founding and running eco-university Schumacher College in Devon, eventually becoming a leading figure in the UK green movement. Radical Love draws on the author's lifetime of experience as a lover, husband, parent, activist, and educator. It is an exploration of love in all its forms, from romantic love to love for one's family and community to love for the planet and all beings. Like an unfolding metta meditation, the book expands our notions of love to its most sublime universal state and makes a great gift to share with those we love.

180 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2023

“We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.”
― Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is the current editor of the magazine Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School. 

His most notable accomplishment is a "peace walk" with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries-- Washington, London, Paris and Moscow-- a trip of over 8,000 miles. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate. Defending criticism that his goals are unrealistic, he has said, "Look at what realists have done for us.

They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept."