If individual wellbeing has to happen, we need to attend to individual people. If each individual begins to experience himself as a human being, if he allows his humanity to flower within himself, there will be peaceful human beings and a peaceful world. So our interest should become people
Additional information/ Source: Book: Culture of Peace; Page: 10
Categories: Humanity Well being People
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