The Search for Common Ground, published in 1971, is a radical departure from the rest of my writing. There I sought to examine the paradox of conscious life which, on the one hand, declares unequivocally the uniqueness of the private life, the sense of being an isolate and alone, the urgency to savor one’s personal flavor, but, on the other hand, asserts the necessity to feel oneself as a primary part of all of life, sharing at every level of awareness a dependence upon the same elements in nature, caught up in the ceaseless rhythm of living and dying, with no final immunity against a common
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