From despair into hope

No child today, that left school without knowing how to use a computer, you would say was really well prepared or well educated or well conditioned for life in the modern world. So in the same way, if we are not giving meditation, this art of prayer, to our children we are condemning them and the next generation facing the huge problems that we have created, condemning them to a very difficult and perhaps even despairing future. Meditation can be a breakthrough from despair into hope, and a contemplative practice built into our daily life in a simple, ordinary way is so essential for our development, for our well-being, for being able to deal with the complexities of the world that we’ve created, that to take meditation into a school is one of the most powerful contributions we can make to the future.

( Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman )