What our teaching is becomes clearer and clearer to me, in the sense that to develop a cheap and livable and graceful lifestyle is one of the most important and heaviest things that we can pass on to mankind, as a teaching to everyone. That includes how to get along together; how to think beautifully and accurately; how to learn to govern ourselves. Govern yourself.
Stephen Gaskin was a spiritual teacher and author, and founder of The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee. The website stephensgospel.com shares quotes from his early books, Monday Night Class and Caravan. As the leader of an intentional community built from scratch, his sayings can have a lot of relevance to people working together on challenging projects.