It is part of the way of peace to be freshly hurt each time humanity is betrayed. Apathy, in the form of emotional numbness, must be healed in order for this to happen. Just as with victims of extreme domestic abuse, an emotional body that has been scarred through war can persist in a state of hopelessness. You and I were not present during the slaughter in Cambodia or Rwanda, but our emotional bodies give those events a presence inside ourselves. "If you do it unto the least, you do it unto me," is the guiding principle here. Hope enters as a healing tool to say that humanity can be betrayed but never forgotten. Hope is the hand that reaches out to say, I feel who you are and what is happening to you.Deepak Chopra, Peace Is the Way