We live in a society that is in obvious need of healing. Every day we here new reports of hate crimes, war, human rights violations. But on a more mundane scale, we live in a highly polarized society and that polarization seems to grow greater everyday. Compassion and basic ethics seem to be vanishing away. Families and marriages dissolve at an alarming rate.
People grow more and more isolated.
We wonder why there seem to be no hope for world peace when we cannot seem to find peace in ourselves. This is a great problem, and one for which there is no easy answer. People live with hunger or are victims of prejudice and discrimination because ours is a violent society. It is not a violence of physical force, but it is violence nonetheless. The violence between people and nations continues to grow because people cannot find peace within themselves.