we have a live connection with krishna das this evening. i listen to him say this to someone crying in despair at the cascade of suffering on the planet. he says—

It takes a lot of courage to live in this world at this time. But you can’t, we can’t allow the despair that we could fall into to cripple us. Because if that happens, then what? So, we have to fight against the despair, against all the things that tend to cripple us and take our hope away. But it’s not about the outside world. This world is made up of us. All of us. We have to find that inner strength and the courage to go on and do what we feel we have to do with our lives right now, regardless of how it looks to us out there.

We have a very limited understanding of what this world is and what it isn’t. So we should not pretend that we understand everything. We don’t even know who we are. How can we know anything about what’s going on in the so-called world?