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Here was an apparition—part invention and part discovery—that removed the barriers between us and allowed for a flow of compassion, no matter how badly we had behaved.It meant that wholeheartedness between people was always possible.We don’t have to restrict ourselves, and we don’t have to compromise.With our inventive powers, we can be passionately for each other and for the whole living world around us.We need never name a human being as the enemy.He encourages the expression of each thing that is pressing to be said in the group, not as a problem that must be resolved, but as a statement that can take its place with others.He does this until all that wants to be said is spoken, until all of all of us shows up.Let’s hear what he thinks about why this has happened and what can be done with him for the sake of the community.At the generous invitation of a friend whom we met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, we visited South Africa in the summer of 1999 with Roz’s daughter, Alexandra.All the enormously stimulating discussions we had, with government ministers in Cape Town or with artists in Johannesburg, with business people in Pretoria or with music teachers in Soweto, all the discussions were about South Africa.Whether we talked with our driver, or the chairman of the board of the Cape Town Symphony, or the cook, or the washerwoman, we
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found ourselves talking about South Africa.South Africa, the embodiment of symphonia, the sounding of all the voices together.A living, breathing entity.What’s so amazing is that nobody is hiding anything.All the problems of society hit you in the face.You can see the terrible conditions of the squatter camps, and the total disparity among people’s lives.It’s all in the open.And it is tolerable, she said, because you see that it’s not how people want it to be.It seems as though everyone knows that everybody is trying to change it.They don’t identify a particular group as being a problem.It’s the whole society that has the problem, like a broken bone.What attitude do you take toward the perpetrators, the people whose very existence intensifies bitterness and hatred in an already wounded society?What policies do you adopt to heal the nation?To address this question, the South African government put into place a framework for the possibility of the integration of all aspects of society, and appointed Archbishop Desmond Tutu as its chairman.If an individual chose not to appear before the Commission, he or she agreed to be
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