This article discusses the Catholic principle of Radical Personalism, and its universal implications. The goal that the ideal of Radical Personalism presents is Equal Vision, to see the One Truth, or the Christ, within all.
The Mahabhangi and the Street Sweepers of Varanasi
“We all live under the haunting fear that something may corrupt the environment to the point where man joins the dinosaurs as an obsolete form of life...And what makes these thoughts all the more disturbing is the knowledge that our fate could perhaps be sealed twenty or more years before the development of symptoms.” Dr. David Price, 1959. US Public Health Service."
The Penance of Speech
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This discussion augments Chapter 15 (Awareness of Heart, Humility, Duty and Sacrifice), Chapter 18 (The Practice of Silence and the Use of Vow), and Chapter 42 (Amritapuri),in Gandhi's Earth Ethics, with Teachings from Holy Mother Amma: an Introduction.
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