QUOTES
Today
we are in a new phase of humanity. We all are returning to our common house, the
Earth: the people, the societies, the cultures and religions. Exchanging experiences
and values, we enrich ourselves and we complete ourselves mutually.
The
earth has arrived at the limits of its sustainability. Our task is not to create
sustainable development, but a sustainable society - human beings and nature together.
"Spirituality
is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life
against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation. The opposite
of spirit, in this sense, is not the body but death and everything associated
with the system of death, understood in the widest sense of biological, social,
and existential death (failure, humiliation, and oppression). Nourishing spirituality
means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought
together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in
terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning. The spiritual person
is one who is always in a position to see the other side of reality, and who is
always capable of perceiving that profundity by which we are referred to the Ultimate
Reality that religions call God.
Today
social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience
of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those
who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies
has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse
because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty
percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement
of history.
If
peace is equilibrium of movement, we are living in times of grave disequilibrium
of real war declared against Earth, against eco-systems which are plundered, against
people who are shunted aside because word capital is no longer interested in exploiting
them, against whole classes of workers who are made expendable and excluded: war
against two-thirds of humankind who do not have the basic goods they need to live
in peace. The world political movement does not show any equilibrium. Quite the
contrary, imbalance in all areas is showing itself to be a threat to the common
future of humankind and the earth.
"When
a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace,
the fruit of justice, can flourish."
Solidarity,
compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay
the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the humanity
reunited in the Common House, on the Planet Earth.... Our mission is to celebrate
the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from
and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.
