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In Spite Of Nuclear Weapons, Large Numbers Of American Citizens Feel Totally Insecure. And In Spite Of So Much Wealth, Industry And Technology, Many Americans Are Living Under Deprivation And Anxiety. So Happiness Is Not In Accumulation Of Material Goods, It's In Sharing And Caring.

We Must Realize That Violence Is Not Confined To Physical Violence. Fear Is Violence, Caste Discrimination Is Violence, Exploitation Of Others, However Subtle, Is Violence, Segregation Is Violence, Thinking Ill Of Others And Condemning Others Are Violence. In Order To Reduce Individual Acts Of Physical Violence, We Must Work To Eliminate Violence At All Levels, Mental, Verbal, Personal, And Social, Including Violence To Animals, Plants, And All Other Forms Of Life.

That Was My Childhood. I Grew Up With The Monks, Studying Sanskrit And Meditating For Hours In The Morning And Hours In The Evening, And Going Once A Day To Beg For Food.

In Addition To World Conflicts, The Most Challenging Problem We Face Today Is Hunger, Deprivation And Social Injustice. Because We're Ruled By Separate Self-interest, We Go On Accumulating Personal Wealth, Ignoring The Well Being Of The Others.

At The Moment, For Example, Maybe Ten Percent Of Money In The World Is Related To Goods And Services. Ninety Percent Of Money Is Just Moving Around The World, Chasing Money. So, Money Has Become The Ruler. And We Have Become The Servant.