The discernment and the guide

Directions

We are all groping for directions.

How can I feed my family?

How can I overcome this crippling disease?

How can I manage to pass my exams?

How can I persuade them that this law must not be passed?

How can I save my brother from this ruinous choice?

How can I stop these sharks from grabbing our land?

How can I neutralize this hatred?

How can I reach the station in time?

This search and need for directions is constant, incessant, omnipresent.

And it is not either personal or impersonal, but simultaneously of different orders. We are all wondering, echoing the questions, the blind queries that occupy the very air wherever we live. There are horrifying realizations, that leave an aftermath of utter despondency: is not it clearly too late to recover a natural equilibrium that has been so disrupted and compromised by our own callous greed?

Could it be still possible to mend our ways?

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