participation...................

 

Rootedness is perhaps the most important and least know human spiritual need.  It is one of the hardest to define.  A human being is rooted through their real, active and natural participation in the life of a collectivity that keeps alive treasures of the past and has aspirations for the future. This participation is natural in that it sems automatically from place, birth, occupation and those around them.  Every human being needs to have multiple roots and to derive almost all their moral, intellectual and spiritual life from the environment to which they naturally belong.

-Simone Weil, The Need for Roots