We cannot expect the military establishment to end war. War is their profession. The only way that war can be eliminated is to make it socially unacceptable. If the world religions would speak to the human family regarding its common source and the potential of every human being to be transformed into the divine, a moral voice of great power would be introduced on behalf of the innocent and of the human family as a whole.

Thomas Keating, The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living by Thomas Keating, S. Stephanie Iachetta, editor