“We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.” LifeMadeSelfHelpingSeemsIndividualWestSelectedSelf SufficiencySufficiencyFetish Book:A Way of Being Source: A Way of Being
“Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.” WorldWayNeedsSelfWould BePurposeLostNaturePlanetsBirdPurpose Of LifeSelf SufficiencyCoexistSufficiencyRebukeSelf ReliantSymposium Book:This bright land: a personal view Source: This bright land: a personal view