The world can often be a dark and dispairing place, and we can succumb to that darkness or we can choose to be a light, a beacon of hope, a shining ray of love, illuminating the space around us.

Faced with intolerance, corruption, injustice and ill-will, we can choose to live from the heart. Where there is hostility we can become instruments of peace. Where there is hatred we can sow love. Where there is injury, forgiveness. Where there is sorrow, joy. Where there is despair, hope. And where there is darkness, light.

The world will never change unless each of us...