‘One Cloak’ is the symbol adopted by the communitarian communities to provide visual context for the larger principle and practice of the intentional ‘overcoming’ of possessiveness, hoarding, sloth, glamour and status – all of which are rooted in selfishness and vanity.
The principle and practice of ‘One cloak’ represents the conscious divorce of ‘holding things to ourselves’ that could and should be shared with the greater whole.’
When we allow the habit to ‘hold’ things to ourselves to go unchallenged, these accumulations of ‘stuff’ often creates barrier to forming bonds of mutual aid.