Whether All Is Really Lost Or Not

It Cannot Suffice To Invent New Machines, New Regulations, New Institutions. It Is Necessary To Change And Improve Our Understanding Of The True Purpose Of What We Are And What We Do In The World. Only Such A New Understanding Will Allow Us To Develop New Models Of Behavior, New Scales Of Values And Goals, And Thereby Invest The Global Regulations, Treaties And Institutions With A New Spirit And Meaning.

When A Person Tries To Act In Accordance With His Conscience, When He Tries To Speak The Truth, When He Tries To Behave Like A Citizen, Even In Conditions Where Citizenship Is Degraded, It Won't Necessarily Lead Anywhere, But It Might. There's One Thing, However, That Will Never Lead Anywhere, And That Is Speculating That Such Behavior Will Lead Somewhere.

Planetary Democracy Does Not Yet Exist But Our Global Civilization Is Already Preparing A Place For It. It Is The Very Earth We Inhabit Linked With Heaven Above Us. Only In This Setting Can The Mutuality And The Commonality Of The Human Race Be Newly Created With Reverence And Gratitude For That Which Transcends Each Of Us And All Of Us Together.

Whether All Is Really Lost Or Not Depends Entirely On Whether Or Not I Am Lost.

Hope Is A Feeling That Life And Work Have Meaning. You Either Have It Or You Don't, Regardless Of The State Of The World That Surrounds You.