An incubus of ignorance, fear, hunger, oppression and intolerance haunts large regions of the world, and we must have no delusions that we are immune.
We do not have to be victimized by the ugliness in the world any longer.
Some humans have, in fact, been reduced to nothing more than mere vessels of pain.
The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.
The terrible atrocities in the world require our most earnest intentions be focused on their immediate eradication.
Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.
We have the power to oppose!
When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppressions.
You cannot change another person's mind or educate them; this they must do themselves.
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
