Young people who
see family members taking pills to go to sleep and stay awake, to have more energy, to resist colds and assorted aches and pains, may see little distinction between filling legal prescriptions at the corner drugstore and getting illegal drugs on the dark street corner down the block.
Obviously education is essential to progress, for both individuals and society. And the vital significance of a spiritual education shouldn't be overlooked.
Think of character and you think of something solid, stable. In the middle of personal battles, though, we may feel anything but solid or stable. That's the time to look deeper.
Purity and innocence are qualities often associated with children. Yet aren't these childlike qualities utterly central in a world where greed, impurity, and pollution are major challenges?
