Sundeep Waslekar quotes “I am because we are”, from the Ubuntu philosophy
In southern Africa there is a philosophy called Ubuntu which means “I am because we are”.
So I won’t exist if we don’t exist. So I am because we are. So actually to think in terms of we rather than I is in the interest of my survival and my prosperity. So in fact, thinking in terms of we rather than I is gainful, not sacrificial. There is a philosophy in India in my country which we say is few thousand years old and it’s called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam that’s a Sanskrit word that means that the world is a family and we are all integrated as a family and we are all related to each other and that is how we have to look at each other…And therefore, to harness our interdependence, to harness our co-existence, to harness our humanity, it’s beneficial, it’s not sacrificial and it’s what we need.
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