It Is Not Enough To Stare Up

Hope Is The Deep Orientation Of The Human Soul That Can Be Held At The Darkest Times.

Hope Is Not A Feeling Of Certainty That Everything Ends Well. Hope Is Just A Feeling That Life And Work Have A Meaning.

Genuine Politics -- Even Politics Worthy Of The Name -- The Only Politics I Am Willing To Devote Myself To -- Is Simply A Matter Of Serving Those Around Us: Serving The Community And Serving Those Who Will Come After Us. Its Deepest Roots Are Moral Because It Is A Responsibility Expressed Through Action, To And For The Whole.

I Am Not An Optimist, Because I Am Not Sure That Everything Ends Well. Nor Am I A Pessimist, Because I Am Not Sure That Everything Ends Badly. I Just Carry Hope In My Heart.

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.