The Paradox of Our
Times
Is it that we have taller buildings but shorter
tempers
Wider free-ways but narrower viewpoints
We spend more but have less
We have bigger houses but smaller families
More conveniences but lesser time
We have more academic degrees but lesser sense
More knowledge but lesser judgement
More experts, more problems, more medicines but
lesser health
We have multiplied our possessions but reduced
our values
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too
often
We have learnt hoe to make a living but not how
to live
We have added years to life but not life to years
We have been all the way to the moon and back,
but have
trouble crossing the street to meet our new neighbour
We have our space, but not inner space
We have cleaned up the air, but polluted our
souls
We have split the atom but not our prejudice
We have higher incomes but lower morals
We have become long on quantity but short on
quality
These are the times of taller men and shorter
character
Steep profits and shallow relationships
These are the times of world peace but domestic
warfare
More leisure but lesser fun
More kinds of food but lesser nutrition
These are the days of two incomes, but more
divorces
Of fancier houses, but broken homes
It is a time when there is much in the show
window and nothing in the stockroom
A time when technology can bring this letter to
you and a time when you can choose, either to make a difference….or just hit
Delete.
-His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
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