Some
people are facing such difficult challenges that they don't even know how they will have the money to buy shoes for their children, or be able to afford to take the family to a movie on a Friday night—as their neighbors do.
When
someone needs comforting—a spouse, a child, a friend, a fellow worker, or anyone else—most of us would like to be more skillful at recognizing that person's need and responding to it in an appropriate and helpful way.
Clearly, there is a huge, untapped potential for spiritual regeneration of human thought, and for its corresponding effect—improvement of the atmosphere in which humanity lives.
