Keep The Company Of Those Who Seek

Either We Have Hope Within Us Or We Don't It Is A Dimension Of The Soul, And Is Not Essentially Dependent On Some Particular Observation Of The World Or Observation Of The Situation. Hope Is Not Prognostication. It Is An Orientation Of The Spirit, An Orientation Of The Heart.

Responsibility Is Something Higher Than My Family, My Country, My Firm, My Success. Responsibility To The Order Of Being, Where, And Only Where, They Will Be Properly Judged.

It's Not True That You Should First Think Up An Idea For A Better World And Only Then "put It Into Practice," But, Rather, Through The Fact Of Your Existence In The World, You Create The Idea Or Manifest It - Create It, As It Were, From The "material Of The World," Articulate It In The "language Of The World."

We Must Come To Understand The Deep Mutual Connection Or Kinship Between The Various Forms Of Our Spirituality. We Must Recollect Our Original Spiritual And Moral Substance, Which Grew Out Of The Same Essential Experience Of Humanity. I Believe That This Is The Only Way To Achieve A Genuine Renewal Of Our Sense Of Responsibility For Ourselves And For The World. And At The Same Time, It Is The Only Way To Achieve A Deeper Understanding Among Cultures That Will Enable Them To Work Together In A Truly Ecumenical Way To Create A New Order For The World.

Even A Purely Moral Act That Has No Hope Of Any Immediate And Visible Political Effect Can Gradually And Indirectly, Over Time, Gain In Political Significance.