What a strange world we live in. Science is making discoveries. Technology is spreading. Knowledge is deepening. Medicine is extending lives. A revolution is changing the world of communications. The Earth is a global village. Education is an appeal to reason. Media is swift in facilitating exchange... And yet… Violence is consuming parts of the world, poverty is keeping more than a billion people out, wars are spreading the area of mass graves, making the world a living hell, exporting refugees into distant exile...
This is all taking place as our hearts are filled with deep sadness. Sadness guarantees man’s moral condition. Excess sadness is a sign of paucity of conscience, values and ethics in the perpetrators, and an expression of the nobleness of spirit in those who are forced to bitter exile.
Peace is a condition of life. Peace does not look like it is coming to the Orient. Violence is relentless. Violence has the power of spreading like a disease. Violence is committed by religious, ethnic and racial intolerance. Violence is the result of repressive powers, terrorist organizations and international condoning.
A world that has lost its values of equality, justice, freedom and dignity is a world trained for cruelty and arrogance and human downfall. What a shame this violence is. It is the striking failure of prevailing international institutions and governance systems. And while we wait for better times, we must insist on regarding peace as humanity’s noble goal, a goal worth fighting for. A goal worth fighting for even if attempts fail. The string of violence is bound to break someday.
Let peace be our greeting always. And peace be upon you.