Will there be a deal on Ukraine? When will anyone in Israel or Palestine try something different? Will Europe ever get its act together economically? Where will the borders be drawn in the greater Middle East? Will a stable equilibrium emerge in East Asia? Will there be a deal over Iran's nuclear program? Where is Afghanistan headed? Will Obama's climate change gambit work? Will the United States, its allies, and other concerned countries come up with a better approach to "violent extremism" of the sort represented by al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and others? Can Western democracies roll back the "surveillance state"? Will North & South America's gang & drug cartel violence ever seize to exist? When will the kidnapped Nigerian girls be returned to their families? Can democratic oppositions' peaceful nonviolent tactics prevail over dictatorships? When will we act upon the knowledge that our planet is abundant enough for all its species to prosper?
These are some of the issues troubling governments globally today, and they can all be traced down to love. We are doing too much for ourselves, and too little for others; yet happiness truly comes from what we give, not what we get. Success isn't getting power & money; success is giving in to love, peace, happiness by working on humility, forgiveness, gratefulness, faith, service to others & God. We will keep falling to temptation where we are weak, but that's ok, because we will self-examine & work on ourselves one day at a time. Every day we will fall less, and every day it will be easier to persevere. And we must not judge those who fall again, because that only makes it harder to get back up. We must encourage, because like us they are trying, and eventually will succeed. "If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that?" Make the world better every opportunity you get to speak. There are no small acts of kindness, because kindness is contagious
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