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Lotus

PIII p27		   
(Mother refers to desalination of seawater.) - Satprem: "There's not enough water?"
"There's water, but just enough for one or two houses; in short there isn't enough water to create a permanent stream.
  
They would have to convert seawater. In Israel they have found a way to do it economically - we even have brochures about it -, but you understand, 'economical' for a city, not for an individual!
And so we have to get water in order to make this islet, that's the difficulty."
  
  
- Satprem: "But before building the islet, we can already start building the 'temple' itself � One has to begin by picking up a stone."
"Yes, we could do that."
- Satprem: "That's what is important, that people pick up the first stone with their hands and then set it down, and that they unite in so doing - because they will never come together through their little huts and their little stories."
"Yes, that would be a lot better."
- Satprem: "Oh yes, of course!"
"Obviously, logically, or rather psychologically, it's an error to build the outside first and the centre afterwards."


PIII p28  
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