Economy Without Ecology Means Managing The Human

This Was Mahatma Gandhi’s Idea, Moving From Ownership To Relationship—seeing That Land Does Not Belong To Us. We Belong To The Land. We Are Not The Owners Of The Land. We Are The Friends Of The Land, Like Friends Of The Earth. The Fundamental Shift Is In This Consciousness That Land Does Not Belong To Us, We Belong To The Land.

At The Moment, For Example, Maybe Ten Percent Of Money In The World Is Related To Goods And Services. Ninety Percent Of Money Is Just Moving Around The World, Chasing Money. So, Money Has Become The Ruler. And We Have Become The Servant.

Sometimes I Come Across A Tree Which Seems Like Buddha Or Jesus: Loving, Compassionate, Still, Unambitious, Enlightened, In Eternal Meditation, Giving Pleasure To A Pilgrim, Shade To A Cow, Berries To A Bird, Beauty To Its Surroundings, Health To Its Neighbors, Branches For The Fire, Leaves For The Soil, Asking Nothing In Return, In Total Harmony With The Wind And The Rain. How Much Can I Learn From A Tree? The Tree Is My Church, The Tree Is My Temple, The Tree Is My Mantra, The Tree Is My Poem And My Prayer.

In Spite Of Nuclear Weapons, Large Numbers Of American Citizens Feel Totally Insecure. And In Spite Of So Much Wealth, Industry And Technology, Many Americans Are Living Under Deprivation And Anxiety. So Happiness Is Not In Accumulation Of Material Goods, It's In Sharing And Caring.

In Addition To World Conflicts, The Most Challenging Problem We Face Today Is Hunger, Deprivation And Social Injustice. Because We're Ruled By Separate Self-interest, We Go On Accumulating Personal Wealth, Ignoring The Well Being Of The Others.