A good mind ought to be incited and a bad mind restrained. A virtuous mind soon finds consolation is itself. Miracles seem impossible, just because they break the laws of Nature. There seems something blasphemous in supposing the Universe can mar ITS own order. The misery that overspreads so vastly a part of mankind exists chiefly because those are able to relieve it do not know that it exists. To love and live well is wished of many, but incident to few. To live and to love well is incident to few, but indifferent to all. To love without reason is an argument of lust, to live without love, a token of folly. The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting. There is nothing in lobe more requisite or more delectable than pleasant and wise conference; neither can there arise any storm in love which by wit is not turned into a calm. Tender love maketh greatest show of blossoms, but tried love bringeth forth sweetest juice. If we want to understand the dark forces within ourselves, we must give up the haughty idea that we are unique in all creation. Just as every part of your body is interrelated with every other part, so each of us is interrelated and integrated into the larger human system—the society which we are a part of. And, by extension, each society is directly related to every other one, as nation is to nation, continent to continent. The entire planet can be seen ultimately as a gigantic network or web of interwoven parts. One thing you learn when you study your first spider web is that a slight pressure on any single strand of that web is felt everywhere on it. That is how the spider uses her web: when a bit of food lands there and becomes stuck in the sticky coatings, vibrations travel all along the network, and whenever the spider lies in watchful waiting, it picks up these vibrations and gets the message. 

So it is in the network of human experiences: pressure on any part of it affects the rest of the web. An earthquake in Napa, California affects individuals the World over, as does a war in Ferguson, Missouri or Stockton, California, as the political-religious conflict going on in the State Capitol in Sacramento with the arrested of four Democratic Senator’s this year: Ben Hueso (DUI), Leland Yee (Corruption, guns, murder for hire in an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint against him and 25 other people.), Ron Calderon (taking bribes in exchange for government acts), and Rod Wright (was convicted of perjury and voter fraud for lying about his legal residence in Los Angeles County) and the ethnic unrest all around the World. The network ties each particle of humankind to every other particle. There are virtually no dark or hidden groups of human life on the globe. When stone age tribes are discovered, in Stockton, California, it is only a matter of time until the entire World knows about them, and information gleaned from studying their lives provides insight to every culture and nation in the World. This sort of interrelatedness has its disadvantages. Communications media have literally shrunk the distances between individuals and peoples. A decreasing amount of privacy is available to each of us. Is this lack of privacy important? We think so. People drive enormous please from involvement with each other, but each of us also need time apart, time alone. Our own personal lives are in need of development just as much as our social lives. If privacy is eliminated, what happens to the interior World of each of us? What happens to meditation, introspection, self-study, to contact with oneself? These must not be lost in the patterns of growth and ever-increasing interinvolvement. Does that confuse and complicate the situation even more? It should not surprise you. Among the perennial and essential human dilemmas is this each of us must somehow find ways of developing our own life, gaining personal growth and depth, reaping advantages for ourselves—while still cultivating a healthy, outgoing, cooperative, and caring relationship with other people. This is almost as difficult as running in two directions, at the same time.

And I hear you thinking, “What if that was me, I would want someone to speak up?” Well, that aspect of it is a little hard to deal with, so I guess since no one wants to do the right then, whenever one feels betrayed or guilty, just go meditate and focus on the bright future. Trust, me, I really feel so good and am able to repress the memories, but then to look at these people know they know want is going on, but will not say anything makes me feel kind of blue and makes me want to distance myself from them. I have tried to share some of the best insights of the best human minds of the human species. These only begin to scratch the surface of what we need to know. The human relations problems yet to be explored are immense, and the solution will come no more easily than did the others. Children use words to express how they feel; adults use words to hide how they feel. To me, one of the most baffling aspects of the behavior of men and women in highly-responsible positions in some segment of our society, is their comparative lack of concern for—perhaps its lack of awareness of—the factor of communication, as such, in the problems and situations in which they have to deal—It is communication that makes human society possible. For communication to take place, the receiver must also be receptive. That means more than just having one’s ears cleaned. One must also want or need to get the message and be willing to decide ad fit it into his existing pattern of ideas or associations. If a student is asleep in a classroom, even the professor’s most exciting and beautiful message will not get through to him.

If I am angry at you, I may not receive your message, no matter what or how you try to send. If you are unwilling to hear me because you do not like or respect people of my gender, ethnic background, profession or generation, then I am spilling my message onto unreceptive ground. Influence through mass communication need not be blatant—it can be very subtle indeed. Even when communicators are not making a direct attempt to sell something, they can succeed in influencing the way we look at the World. All I have to say is we need to stop rewarding and supporting those we know have done wrong. And in the media, it would be nice to get news stations with different content, and not have every station go to commercial break at the same time. Sometimes it feels like the TV news, is all one station, ran by the government, with different labels. You all, for the most part do a great job, we understand that is just how the business has evolved, but we want to change the World back to when Walter Cronkite was reading the trade papers on national TV. The diversity is great, but more originality, research and reports. Through education, books, encounter and sensitivity groups, and programs on television and other media, we are trying to bring about awareness of such issues: racism (only one race), sexism, elitism—all these are increasingly being brought to our collective attentions. This is the era of consciousness-raising, when underrepresented groups are seeking to awaken their members to the abuses of racism and the glories of ethnic heritages long in disrepute, and when women are trying to draw the attention of other women (and men) to the problem of sexual stereotyping and discrimination. However, the major problems in society are the institutions they are controlled by evil people.

However, we are firmly committed to the idea that human nature is not instinctively violent—that we all start out neutral in this regard. It is in the learning that occurs in the home, the neighborhood, the classroom, the playground, the streets, shops, offices, military institutions, newsrooms and other places that individuals acquire the skills and attitudes needed to do violence. Cooperation, respect, appreciation, mutual interaction, and selflessness are often taught ineffectively, irrelevantly, or too late! To pretend to be a good person is not enough. Much violence is spawned by frustration. Frustration will always be found where people’s basic needs go unsatisfied—so if you are jealous of someone, it means you have an inadequacy someone in your life to make you hate that person. Where poverty is the frustrator, it is up to not only the government, but also to individual citizens and groups to pressure for the eradication of poverty. So before we jam pack this country, with people who do not belong here, we need to help the ones who are here legally, first and foremost. If one gets ahead at the expense of another individual—or of whole groups of people—that inequality pollutes the society of which we are all a part of, and one cannot be surprised at the violence that results. Some violence is created by mental and emotional disorders, for which successful treatment is sometimes available. However, society needs to create an improved climate of acceptance for these programs of help and therapy that are available. The stigma attached to mental illness must be eradicated, and so must the feeling of shame or weakness that keeps many people from seeking available professional help when they need it. On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.