@Greta I think you'd enjoy the book then, it covers that sort of questioning quite well.
@neauoire I will look into it this evening, thank you.
In the mean time, your post inspired me to write a post about words and our sometimes degenerating human relations. (It cites Tagore on a thought related to his and Gandhi's ahimsa.)
@arinbasu
@neauoire Thank you for the question, I updated the post this morning but it still needs tweaking. Here is the gist:
Self-realization through service and sacrifice brings a resilience in synthesis that can wean the miserly to build cooperation.
I also need to add sth about how Tagore frames inter-relational problems in terms of the difficulty of building self-reliance to meet "the outsider on equal terms" in order to receive something of value.
...hard to make concise and clear!