Month: August 2020

Picture shows a quote by Laurens van der Post who was an advisor to the British Royal family. The Bushmen of South Africa have no sense of possession. "To label them poor, completely misses the point. For Bushmen living in their natural environment, do not feel in any way deprived by their lack of material goods. Their priorities are simply quite different".-- The Way: An Ecological World-view...

This story was told by Sir John Kotelawala to Dr Ariyaratme, founder of the Sarvodaya Movement, in "Bhava Thanha: An Autobigraphy, Vol 1, by A. T. Ariyaratne."In a certain country a young couple lived in a mud hut built on the periphery of a jungle.They would get up in the morning, find something to eat, pack their lunches and enter the forest, carrying a knife, axe and coir rope. All day they...