"I Am Because of You"
How interdependent and inter connected are we all?
Can any of us exist in this world alone?
Our inter relationship with Everything and Everyone,
is the very basis and fabric of our existence.
Not a single one of us can live in isolation.
From the air that we breath, to the food that we eat,
our existence is woven into the whole tapestry of life as an integral and inter dependent fact.
'Ubuntu' is an African word, derived from the Zulu language. It has no direct translation into the English. However, Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu came close to encapsulating the spirit of it with his words; 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours'...
'A person is a person, through other people'. This idea has its roots in African humanist philosophy which postulates that society is built upon 'common humanity, oneness, you and me both'...
Read more in Never Not Ever Here Now
Books by the Writer
How interdependent and inter connected are we all?
Can any of us exist in this world alone?
Our inter relationship with Everything and Everyone,
is the very basis and fabric of our existence.
Not a single one of us can live in isolation.
From the air that we breath, to the food that we eat,
our existence is woven into the whole tapestry of life as an integral and inter dependent fact.
'Ubuntu' is an African word, derived from the Zulu language. It has no direct translation into the English. However, Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu came close to encapsulating the spirit of it with his words; 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours'...
'A person is a person, through other people'. This idea has its roots in African humanist philosophy which postulates that society is built upon 'common humanity, oneness, you and me both'...
Read more in Never Not Ever Here Now
Books by the Writer
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