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VALIDITY IN NATURE
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be used in the process of satisfying one's needs. The goodness of nature evokes not only a response of duty but also the attitude of gratitude and appreciation rather than possession and exclusive ownership. In view of the munificence of nature, man should respond to it with thankfulness. When gratitude is present, there is no desire to possess either in excess or in an absolute sense. Willingness to share and to limit one's needs is the normal response. The attitude that this is mine alone is thus both unnecessary and invalid. It stems out of an uncertainty regarding the future, which every one experiences and which one may try to bulwark against individualistically by surrounding himself with greater possession than is immediately demanded and using violence, if necessary, to attain them.
In Societies where the conquest attitude towards nature dominates, fear and acquisitiveness abound. Man's Motivation in such a situation is and stems out of a condition which man himself has created. Common sense tells us and history verifies that there is peace i.e. a state of non-violence among men, only when reality is shared more or less equally. Whenever it is not, there is jealousy, dissatisfaction, unrest and violence. Experience shows that human beings are such that, if a minority in a given system flourishes consciously at the expense of the suffering majority or if a system is such that great inequalities prevail, men will resort to violence to right the situation. From history we learn that a selfish response to nature provokes violence, an unselfish one, non-violence.
The second attribute of reality is its oneness or
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