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In Any Case, Ideals Are Something We Strive For; They Are Somewhere On The Horizon Of Our Efforts; They Provide Meaning And Direction; They Are Not, However, Static Quotas That We Either Fulfill Or Do Not.

We Are The First Atheistic And Global, All-embracing Civilization. You Cannot Tell Whether You Are Sitting At An Airport In Hong Kong Or In A Hotel In Alaska. Everything Is Instrumentalized, Subjected To A Short-term Purpose. It Is Quite Possible That In Such A Situation Any Sense Of A Deeper Meaning Gets Lost.

We Must Come To Understand The Deep Mutual Connection Or Kinship Between The Various Forms Of Our Spirituality. We Must Recollect Our Original Spiritual And Moral Substance, Which Grew Out Of The Same Essential Experience Of Humanity. I Believe That This Is The Only Way To Achieve A Genuine Renewal Of Our Sense Of Responsibility For Ourselves And For The World. And At The Same Time, It Is The Only Way To Achieve A Deeper Understanding Among Cultures That Will Enable Them To Work Together In A Truly Ecumenical Way To Create A New Order For The World.

This Is The Moment When Something Once More Begins Visibly To Happen, Something Truly New And Unique... Something Truly Historical, In The Sense That History Again Demands To Be Heard.

None Of Us Know All The Potentialities That Slumber In The Spirit Of The Population, Or All The Ways In Which That Population Can Surprise Us When There Is The Right Interplay Of Events.