The Wisdom Letter #054

is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub

“What matters today is not the difference between those who believe and those who do not believe, but the difference between those who care and those who don’t.”

This new attitude toward life can be expressed more specifically in the following principles: Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed hi

The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a ‘practical’ point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.

Such philosophies emphasize that we humans dwell within, not apart from, the network of felt relations, human and ecological, that shape our lives; and that we have possibilities for living creatively and compassionately amid these relations