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What's the meaning of life?... what's the purpose? ...Is God cruel and hurts some families by killing babies... allowing other nasty families to grow old...?

— Benjamin Creme The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA (2010)

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Without sharing there will never be justice. Without justice there will never be peace. Without peace there is no future for us.

Mankind will soon see that there is no alternative to sharing the produce of the world. Every other method has been tried and failed, and has led inevitably to war, suffering, degradation and misery.

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

In short, the crash will lead to a reordering of priorities.

To be spiritual really means to take in the world as a whole, to think in global terms. This is needed above all at the present time.

The tensions existing in this discrepancy of living standards have within them the seeds of a third world war. That war would be nuclear and would destroy all life on the planet.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
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