But something more is needed to persuade the manufacturers that these drugs should be made available to the third world at affordable prices. The world is a better place for such personal achievements because the power of purity is a state of being, not merely a moral quality, and this state determines how and what we do. From a pure heart we see what we should do and we are saved from doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Purity of heart is an accurate compass. It keeps pointing to the centre however many unexpected turns we take, however obscured the view may be.
Simplicity is the hard-earned key to truth.
To see God means having a pure heart. The pure and simple heart is never bored. Modern culture likes to change its rhythms of life frequently. The eventual price of novelty, however, is staleness, ennui and shallowness, the anxieties of affluence which are among the most corrosive of the malaises of modernity. The consumer's thrill of a new purchase at a store, the wrapping and unwrapping, using it for the first time, are all short-lived pleasures.