In A Consumer Society There Are Inevitably

We Can Only Live The Changes We Wish To See: We Cannot Think Our Way To Humanity. Every One Of Us, Every Group, Must Become The Model Of That Which We Desire To Create. We Must Break The Obsolete Social And Economic Systems That Divide The World Between The Over-privileged And The Under-privileged. Each Of Us, Whether Government Leader Or Protester, Business Executive Or Worker, Professor Or Student, Share A Common Guilt.

Most People Acquire Most Of Their Knowledge Outside School, And In School Only Insofar As School, In A Few Rich Countries, Has Become Their Place Of Confinement During An Increasing Part Of Their Lives.

Healthy People Are Those Who Live In Healthy Homes On A Healthy Diet; In An Environment Equally Fit For Birth, Growth Work, Healing, And Dying... Healthy People Need No Bureaucratic Interference To Mate, Give Birth, Share The Human Condition And Die.

It Takes More Time And Effort And Delicacy To Learn The Silence Of A People Than To Learn Its Sounds. Some People Have A Special Gift For This. Perhaps This Explains Why Some Missionaries, Notwithstanding Their Efforts, Never Come To Speak Properly, To Communicate Delicately Through Silences. Although They "speak With The Accent Of Natives" They Remain Forever Thousands Of Miles Away. The Learning Of The Grammar Of Silence Is An Art Much More Difficult To Learn Than The Grammar Of Sounds.

Effective Health Care Depends On Self-care; This Fact Is Currently Heralded As If It Were A Discovery.