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  • From: "Robert Jensen" <robertscroft@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Sustainability and contentment
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:29:08 EST


Marsha,
Your post inspired me. Contentment is indeed a rare comodity in this time and age for most people.

It almost seems as though the great human advances of the 19th century were wasted by humanity in the 20th century.

I wonder if the time has come to somehow harness the knowledge that we share here with the best of available resources and build a better outcome as individuals and as part of a larger community?

Life could certainly become far more stimulating and rewarding if we can.

What do others think.
Robert Jensen


From: "Marsha Hanzi" <hanzibra@svn.com.br>
Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Sustainability and contentment
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:24:28 -0300


> Fascinating insights flying around -- thanks for starting this one up Myk,
> and to everyone else, particularly Toby for several well-thought through
> posts. My twopennyworth:
>
> 1) Sustainability is indeed a word being battled over, particularly
between
> environmentalists and economists -- important to keep asserting the
> environmental bottom line of 'not damaging the natural systems that
sustain
> life' -- while also insisting that the 'meeting human needs fairly' aspect
> has to be taken on-board by greenies.
>

There is a word which we rarely hear any more, but which may be in fact
central to the issue at hand: "contentment" , means being happy with what
you have, that gentle state of well-being, of soft glowing happiness ( not
shouting from the mountaintops). The image to me is sitting quietly on the
veranda, watching the sun go down. To me, contentment has to do with
slower rhythm , free time, having the basics ( no fear).. Maybe
contentment is in fact one of our goals in Permaculture-- having those
basics, and recognizing them as being sufficient for life-quality...Knowing
to stop in time... Get what I mean? (Couterbalance to "more is better"...)

Marsha


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