Scientific and technological “solutions” which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter ho… - E. F. Schumacher

The modern economist … is used to measuring the “standard of living” by the amount of annual consumption, assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is “better off” than a man who consumes less. A Buddhist economist would consider this approach excessively irrational: since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption.

The Buddhist view, “takes the function of work to be at least threefold”: “to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.”

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.