We know to cooperate with the nation, from which we are going to gain our livelihood, or with an idea for a utopia, because that is going to profit us. We know cooperation under authority, which is compulsion and conformity. But the cooperation we are talking about is entirely different. That cooperation comes only when you care. ‘Care’ is a very simple word, but it has a deep meaning – to care for somebody, to care for a tree, to care for a bird. But we do not care. Please, I am not moralising, I am merely pointing out how important it is to live in this world with care. To care for the room in which you are living, to care how you eat, what your behaviour is, what your manners are.

From Collected Works, Vol. 14

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