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Our Faith Gives Us Knowledge Of Something Better.

No Degree Of Prosperity Could Justify The Accumulation Of Large Amounts Of Highly Toxic Substances Which Nobody Knows How To Make Safe And Which Remain An Incalculable Danger To The Whole Of Creation For Historical Or Even Geological Ages. To Do Such A Thing Is A Transgression Against Life Itself, A Transgression Infinitely More Serious Than Any Crime Perpetrated By Man. The Idea That A Civilization Could Sustain Itself On Such A Transgression Is An Ethical, Spiritual, And Metaphysical Monstrosity. It Means Conducting The Economical Affairs Of Man As If People Did Not Matter At All.

The Fundamental Task Is To Achieve Smallness Within Large Organisation.

Much Of The Economic Decay Of Southeast Asia (as Of Many Other Parts Of The World) Is Undoubtedly Due To A Heedless And Shameful Neglect Of Trees.

Our Ordinary Mind Always Tries To Persuade Us That We Are Nothing But Acorns And That Our Greatest Happiness Will Be To Become Bigger, Fatter, Shinier Acorns; But That Is Of Interest Only To Pigs. Our Faith Gives Us Knowledge Of Something Better: That We Can Become Oak Trees.