What does it take for world peace?
There’s always despair in human life. It’s mankind’s situation. Humanity’s always been a mess. There’s something particularly agonizing about the fact that people try to find in a relationship with a man or a woman, something that used to be found in God, or in society, or in values, or in a job. People put a lot of hope in relationships for their personal happiness and it’s not happening for most of them. It disappears. People really have not, more in this culture than in other cultures (and I’m not saying it was explicit in other cultures), digested the idea that love is work. Love is not just automatic. Now that’s something that your grandmother would probably tell you. But what kind of work? After the passion of love fades away, there has to be intention. What is the role of intention in love? Most relationships break off at the moment when intention needs to come into it. People think they do not have to work. They think they are entitled to automatic happiness. I’m not saying tha
