Problems and solutions. 

There are very few people in the world who can see the problem, while there are many who are ready to give solutions. Everyone thinks he knows the solution, but it should be remembered that yesterday's solutions are not helpful today. As times change, solutions must be absolutely new. No matter how ancient the essence of a solution may be, the solution itself must always be new....

Some people think the problems are political: they think searching for a political solution will end the problems. But they are wrong. The problems of mankind are basically not political. Some people think the problems are economic. They think if those problems can be resolved, the world will be filled with peace and prosperity. They are also under an illusion.

People's fundamental problem today is spiritual: it is somewhere in depths, connected with their innermost being. We are lacking the deeper vision that is needed to see the problem. We see very superficially and on the surface, and don't enter deeply. Perhaps we don't want to see deeply because, for that, courage is needed. And not only is courage needed, but you need to accept the possibility there may be no solution.

We keep repeating old learned solutions, afraid of a situation that is incomprehensible to us. In this way, people's solutions are always borrowed from the past, while the problems are of the present. That is why no understanding is possible. People whose thinking is based on the past are never capable of solving any problems of the present.