“We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.”
“ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals." (p. 9)”
“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
“We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.”
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”