Many traditional values have stressed tribal allegiance, which was appropriate for small, isolated communities. Today, our lifestyle choices and our governments' activities have worldwide impacts, yet tribal mentalities undermine the broad sense of community needed to inspire peaceful, constructive solutions to worldwide problems. We all have the capacity for love and compassion. Perhaps the problem, as the Rev. Martin Luther King recognized, is that we are too complacent about victimization. It is true that we can never rid the world of injustice.
History shows only too well that a spiritless community is capable of great depravity.
Of course, no one has all the answers. It seems to us that, if we wish to promote spiritual evolution in our communities, we must become, in our hearts and in our actions, beacons of peace. Therefore, we should first focus on our own spirituality. As we start to understand our own needs and desires, strengths and weaknesses, we are becoming prepared to share spiritual knowledge and contribute to spiritual evolution. If we as a community work towards spiritual evolution, we may or may not be able to prevent global crisis, but we can certainly make the world a better place to live.