The miserable rich can't let go of power and luxury, even when they know it separates them from genuine friendship and love. By contrast, immigrants deliberately cut their past connections and relinquish the comforts of familiar surroundings to search for something more . . . and blow open the doors and windows of their minds. When this happens, spectacular success may follow. Interruption of life patterns is a prime requisite to spiritual evolvement. Much of human misery relates to evaluating conditions and events in only one way.
Human bondage is far more commonly mental than physical.
Group progress has been made among people with disabilities during the past 20 years. I wrote such a pamphlet in 1959. It contained all of the ideas in today's pamphlets, but it was not a set of commandments. I was not interested in curtailing free speech. It was my expectation that people of good will would do the best they could and people lacking good will would ignore the whole issue anyway.