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What will push this world forward

in the direction of peace, prosperity, and security for all humans

is the growing awareness of philosophies like mindfulness,

the benefits of nature,

simple living,

the need for the rich to voluntarily give their wealth to those in greater need,

progressive ways based on scientific research.


We need to keep up the promotion of wellbeing,

our misuse and abuse of animals, handling climate change,

stopping the loss of biodiversity,

increasing human diversity in all walks of life

and in all positions of power and leadership,

and other truly life-affirming

and life-uplifting ways of being.


We need mindful Islam, mindful Christianity,

mindful Hinduism, and so on,

reinterpreting their faiths and teachings,

even their definition of God,

in the light of science

and for the wellbeing of all living things, not just humans,

and not just those of their own faith.

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