Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

a f i x e d p o i n tremains personal property, and after all, the whole familyconflict is a quarrel over property and rights. ThoughI know well that the dispute over these things is notyour ultimate purpose in life, nevertheless it remains adispute, and I cannot join in. This has nothing to do witha narrow-minded or self-righteous attitude. It doesn’tmean that I feel better than you or set myself above you.I simply can no longer have a part in it.That is why I ask you to dissolve my savings account.I don’t know how much it is anymore. I think you mightwell use it to pay the lawyer or for Hilde’s medical bills(which I would much prefer) or something of this kind.Mama should transfer the money to her account. If youdon’t want it, please transfer it here so that it can be usedfor the community. Either way, please close my savingsaccount. I don’t want to have any such savings to fallback on.So you see, freedom from all property is an essentialpart of community life, of living in deep inner fellowshipand love. By no means do I count you among those whoare indifferent to social need, but I do not find your waysufficient for a life of absolute social justice.Now I come to what you call senseless egalitarianism.But what do achievement and reward really mean? Howcan achievement really be measured along with its correspondingreward? These are based on entirely humancriteria. Who is to judge how much more one person hasachieved than another? And where the greatest achievementslie and where again greater performance can still beexpected? These are all purely subjective, human insights163