Tom: If peace is so good, why don’t they promote it?
Guru: Because it has little commercial value.
Tom: Can you elaborate?
Guru: You see peace is a spiritual quality, so we don’t need to buy commercial products to achieve peace. In fact if peace is our goal, we’ll have less desire and we’ll buy less.
Tom: Less luggage, more comfort.
Guru: And more peace.
Tom: So what’s the problem?
Guru: Actually, it’s the solution, and there’s no problem.
Tom: Then?
Guru: But our societies measure their success by economic growth.
Tom: Everybody measures their success by economic growth, right?
Guru: Only in materialistic societies. In spiritual societies, they don’t.
Tom: How do they measure success?
Guru: By physical and spiritual well being of their citizens.
(Extract from Tommy Wong's book, "Wisdom on How to Live Life")
Extract from Tommy Wong's book, "Wisdom on How to Live Life")
Dr. Tommy Wong is the author of the book series “Wisdom on How to Live Life”
