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THE BIRTH OF A BEAUTIFUL HOME
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that recognizes that if one gives one's best and works towards a common goal, with a shared mission and vision but with the freedom to use one's best judgement on how to go about achieving it, optimum results can be realized.
Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players. A beautiful home nurtures a dependent child to grow as an independent adult. The next step forward for this independent adult is to form interdependent groups of organized effort.
So far in the book, we have tried to develop an understanding of culture and an understanding of the individual and family in terms of unity of mind and harmony of living. In the next and concluding chapter, we examine how issues of human separateness or independence and those of human connectedness or interdependence are played out in diverse cultural contexts of our country.
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