Greed, selfishness and irrationality will visit catastrophe upon us, from which those who refuse to accept a different world born of solidarity and justice will not be spared.

Barely a month after the rejection of the European Union Constitution in France and the Netherlands, the EU Summit in Brussels ended in a surprisingly acrimonious orgy of national egoisms and no deal. Then the terrorists struck in London.

People have found that when they have implemented the Golden Rule as Confucius said, all day and every day, not just a question of doing your good deed for the day and then returning to a life of greed and egotism, but to do it all day and every day, you dethrone yourself from the center of your world, put another there, and you transcend yourself.