“Authentic abundance does not lie in secured stockpiles of food or cash or influence or affection but in belonging to a community where we can give those goods to others who need them — and receive them from others when we are in need. … Abundance is a communal act… in which each part functions on behalf of the whole and, in return, is sustained by the whole.
“Community doesn’t just create abundance — community is abundance.”
-Parker Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, p.108)