Music for the Ecstasy and the Pain

Is it possible to be a contemplative, an artist, a doctor, or a sacred activist and at the very same time to be immune to the suffering of the world? Is it possible -- really possible -- to be a human being, any human being at all, and not live in solidarity with all those other humans for whom to live means to suffer? It is apparently so... if the words of the politicians and pundits represent the rest of us... Do they represent you?

The personalist philosophy which I advocate begins with the assertion that the human person is the nexus of meaning and history: everything points to the person: does "whatever" tend us towards our liberation and the possibility of our full development? Does that "whatever" compel our humanity to an activated compassion and a living solidarity with every "other" sharing life and place on this Planet with us?

To Be Continued...